General Quotes

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Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of… — Gary Kleck
If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry… — Unknown Author
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm… — William Rawle
If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued… — Vladimir Lenin
There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.… — Unknown Author
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or… — John Green
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and… — Ernest Hemingway
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the… — Ross Garnaut
The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01… — Oliver North
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they… — Jonathan Mayhew
Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as… — Lee Atwater
I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most… — Nikola Tesla
It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings. — Mae West
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... — Alexander McCall Smith
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds. — Bob Hayes
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. — Henry David Thoreau
She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But… — Terry Pratchett
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence… — Thomas Jefferson
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes… — Robert D. Hare
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated… — Thomas Jefferson
Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned… — Gough Whitlam
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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