Quotes with secretary-general

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  • Richard Feynman The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
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  • Igor Stravinsky The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Seneca There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Samuel Butler There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Carol Loomis There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Arthur Middleton There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Joan Didion There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bob Dylan There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
    Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • John Morley They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Biz Stone This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Cat Stevens This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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