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"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule." »Samuel Butler
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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them." »Alan Watts
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"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings." »Mary Wortley Montagu
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"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army." »Julius Caesar, (attributed)
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"The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle." »Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Men, in general, are but great children." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"In general we are least aware of what our minds do best." »Marvin Minsky
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"All general statements are false." »Unknown
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"general Failure's Fault. Not Yours." »Anonymous
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"#3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best." »California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
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"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams
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"Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had." »Aristotle
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"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law" »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"Who's general Failure and why's he reading my disk" »Anonymous
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"The grave is the general meeting place." »Thomas Fuller
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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." »Edward Gibbon
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"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." »John Adams
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"general principles should not be based on exceptional cases." »Robert J. Sawyer
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." »Samuel Johnson
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"In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it." »Anonymous
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"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe." »Larry Eisenberg
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"Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day." »Herodotus
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"While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or general Disturbance." »Elaine Richards
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"In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge." »William Baker
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"My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso." »Pablo Piccaso
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"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other." »Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire
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