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  • Ben Carson In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, IV
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Alan Greenspan In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
    The Age of Turbulence (2008) p.275
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Bill Haslam In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Benjamin Franklin In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Ruskin In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carol Loomis In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bell Hooks In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Ben Bernanke Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Carl D. Anderson Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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  • A. N. Wilson IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Jane Austen Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
    Pride & Prejudice Vol 2, ch. 2
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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