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I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress. — Maurice Wilkins
I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of… — Alan Greenspan
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at… — Margaret Thatcher
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a… — Roger Clemens
I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son,… — Steve Blake
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of… — Vladimir Lenin
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity.… — Joe Haldeman
Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during… — Gaylord Nelson
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves — Francois Fenelon
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — James F. Cooper
As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important… — Ben Chandler
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon… — Eckhart Tolle
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally… — Amy Klobuchar
A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your… — Lester Bangs
The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the… — John Ruskin
General Motors spends more on health care than steel — Kathleen Sebelius
I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order… — Molly Ivins
We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a… — Shepard Smith
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is… — Scott Harshbarger
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and… — Samuel Chase
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with… — Shirley Jackson
In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies. — Unknown Author
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction… — Thomas Keating
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time,… — K D Lang

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