Quotes with secretary-general

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  • Henry David Thoreau Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alan Pease Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.
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  • Bernhard Langer But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • François Fénelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Bill Dedman Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alan Dundes Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Alexander Hamilton Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • William Penn Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Jonathan Franzen Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
    How to Be Alone: Essays (2007) 87
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Al Sharpton Dr. King's general principles are universal.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Emile Durkheim Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Carre Otis Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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