| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "general Failure's Fault. Not Yours." »Anonymous |
| "In general we are least aware of what our minds do best." »Marvin Minsky |
| "All general statements are false." »Unknown |
| "Men, in general, are but great children." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "The grave is the general meeting place." »Thomas Fuller |
| "You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams |
| "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." »John Adams |
| "Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it." »Anonymous |
| "Who's general Failure and why's he reading my disk" »Anonymous |
| "The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." »Edward Gibbon |
| "general principles should not be based on exceptional cases." »Robert J. Sawyer |
| "Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had." »Aristotle |
| "In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." »Samuel Johnson |
| "For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe." »Larry Eisenberg |
| "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 |
| "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." »Pablo Picasso |
| "Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney general Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "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..." »Richard Phillips Feynman |
| "The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other." »Francis Bacon |
| "Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about general Grant's drinking problems" »Abraham Lincoln |
| "He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right." »Henry Bessemer |
| "general Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too." »Sherwood Anderson |
| "Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first." »Peter Ustinov |
| "What is good for the country is good for general Motors and vice versa." »Charles E. Wilson |
| "As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." »Benjamin Disraeli |
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