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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. Iâ€™m not a risk-taker in life, generally… — Barbara Kingsolver
It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should… — Lucretia Mott
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. — Mother Teresa
Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. — Gerald Durrell
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. — Jonathan Lethem
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally… — Benjamin Franklin
If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally. — Edward Abbey
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the… — Edward Abbey
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in… — Thomas Jefferson
Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason… — Samuel Johnson
And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened… — Henry Fielding
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great… — Abraham Maslow
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...],… — Elizabeth Bishop
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way.… — Neil Simon
Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the… — Sol LeWitt
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for… — Charlotte Bronte
The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is… — George Soros
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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