Generally Quotes
2030 quotes by 1500 authors
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When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
— R C Sherriff
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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
— William Cobbett
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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if…
— Thomas Reid
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Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
— Felix S. Cohen
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The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but…
— John Stuart Mill
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Crime generally punishes itself.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
— Gerald Brenan
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Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has…
— Man Ray
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It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat,…
— Russell Brand
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Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the…
— Robert Bly
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I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them…
— Bob Lilly
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From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent…
— Dalai Lama
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The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a…
— Ernest Starling
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We are quite ignorant of the condition of energy in bodies generally. We know how much gas goes in, and how much comes out, and…
— Peter Tait
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Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are…
— David Suzuki
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I'm always shocked by the people who I'm attracted to. It's always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah,…
— Robert Pattinson
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There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I…
— Les Miles
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In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.
— Sun Tzu
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