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Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is… — Dennis Lindley
I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of… — James Gandolfini
Wal-mart started selling â€œVampire Home Defense Kitsâ€, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door.… — Molly Harper
I think art has a right â€” not an obligation â€” to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this… — Geoffrey Hill
In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot know… — James K. Glassman
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. — Criss Jami
In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones,… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And… — Nikolai Berdyaev
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung. — Henry David Thoreau
A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life. — George Will
Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of… — William John Locke
Economists are generally negligent of their heroes. — John Kenneth Galbraith
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
We often say God is never late, but generally He isnâ€™t early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in… — Joyce Meyer
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. — Bill Vaughan
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually… — Clarence Darrow
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying… — Emma Goldman
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him… — Emma Goldman
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that… — James Madison

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