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It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and… — George Orwell
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified. — Pope John XXIII
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept. — Lord Chesterfield
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. — Alexander Pope
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. — Thomas Paine
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more… — Carl Sagan
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is… — John Stuart Mill
Good families are generally worse than any others. — Anthony Hope
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. — Samuel Richardson
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet… — Milton Friedman
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product. — Dorothea Lange
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because… — Neal Barnard
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press… — Gunnar Myrdal
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable. — Milton Sapirstein
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and… — Barbara Tuchman
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father,… — Mark Leyner
I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I… — Kevin McKidd

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