| "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 |
| "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes." »Douglas Adams |
| "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." »Jeremy S. Anderson |
| "A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin |
| "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups." »Cathy Guisewite |
| "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." »Frank Gelett Burgess |
| "Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost." »Russell Baker |
| "Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards." »Robert Orben |
| "Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost." »Russell Wayne Baker |
| "What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life." »Srully D. Blotnick |
| "Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness." »Jim Rohn |
| "It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur." »George Whitehead |
| "I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content." »Marquis de Sade |
| "Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson |
| "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 |
| "You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams |
| "The grave is the general meeting place." »Thomas Fuller |
| "Men, in general, are but great children." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "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 |
| "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." »John Adams |
| "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 |
| "Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk" »Anonymous |
| "Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it." »Anonymous |
| "Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had." »Aristotle |
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