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Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team… — Steve McConnell
Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent… — John J. Pershing
I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class… — Smedley Butler
Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a… — Jean Liedloff
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may… — George Orwell
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of… — Noam Chomsky
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to… — Virginia Woolf
You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing… — Peter Thiel
The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management. — Tom Felton
There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the… — Sarah Moore Grimke
Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within… — Bertrand Russell
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive… — Ambrose Bierce
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff… — Mark Twain
If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and… — G I Gurdjieff
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. — Julia Ward Howe
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's… — James Wolfe
All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and… — Karl Philipp Moritz
It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each… — Bernard Lazare
In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans. — Martin Yan
My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly. — Philip E. Berger
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. — Adam Weishaupt
Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they… — Edward Tufte
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional… — Francis William Aston
Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models. — Robert Higgs

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