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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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"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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"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." »John K. Hutchens
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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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"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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"Men, in general, are but great children." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle." »Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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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"#3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best." »California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
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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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"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams
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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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"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"general principles should not be based on exceptional cases." »Robert J. Sawyer
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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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"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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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." »Samuel Johnson
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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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"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 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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"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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"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general." »Frederick Nietzsche
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