Generally Quotes
2030 quotes by 1473 authors
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Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally…
— Alexander Fleming
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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
— E F Schumacher
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own…
— Erwin Chargaff
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In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible…
— Unknown Author
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I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and…
— Warren Haynes
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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
— C.S. Lewis
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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the…
— Thomas More
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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the…
— Peggy Noonan
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
— Eddie Bernice Johnson
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
— Diogenes
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HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an…
— G. Edward Griffin
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When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in…
— Edgar Mitchell
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Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
— J Harlen Bretz
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