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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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"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon." »Groucho Marx
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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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"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living." »Nicholas Chamfort
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"In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair." »Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire
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"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130." »Ernest Leroy Boyer
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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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"The grave is the general meeting place." »Thomas Fuller
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"Who's general Failure and why's he reading my disk" »Anonymous
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"Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had." »Aristotle
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"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams
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"#3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best." »California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
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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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"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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"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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"general principles should not be based on exceptional cases." »Robert J. Sawyer
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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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"Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day." »Herodotus
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"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe." »Larry Eisenberg
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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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"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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