General Quotes

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Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. — Aristotle
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion… — Richard Dawkins
General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail… — John Brown Gordon
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In… — Louis Simpson
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own… — Laverne Cox
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he… — Alexander Berkman
General rules have been legislated into being by past masters. — John Ciardi
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same. — Aristotle
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I… — Aldous Huxley
Creators start at the end. First they have an idea of what they want to create. Sometimes this is idea is general, and sometimes it… — Robert Fritz
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering… — Max Lerner
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. — Galen Rowell
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born… — Garry Kasparov
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it… — Garry Kasparov
It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation… — Susan Sontag
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in… — Richard Reti
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be… — Sigmund Freud
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which… — John Updike
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. — Unknown Author
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived… — Stephen Greenblatt
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or… — Saint Augustine
I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income… — Barack Obama
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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