Quotes with major-general

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  • Samuel Pepys I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • James Taylor I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
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  • Barry Bonds I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Bill Forsyth I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Angela Davis I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Alan Greenspan I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Joe E. Lewis I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Buzz Osborne I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If a major source of the nation's news is personalizing user experiences, people with different points of view will end up in echo chambers of their own design. Facebook didn't create that problem, but it shouldn't aggravate it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth If I had another life, that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Benjamin Booker In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Cal Thomas In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bill Kristol In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Edmund Burke In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bernard Bailyn In England the practice of virtual representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Lord George Byron In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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