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Quotes About General

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.
~ Ezra Klein
In the world there is a debate over inequity, and sometimes we get caught up in that, and retail does in general.
~ Doug McMillon
The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
~ Dan Byrd
I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans.
~ James Maslow
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
~ Talcott Parsons
We are almost all, my good General, of a nature so pitifully plastic, that we act from circumstance, and are fashioned by situation.
~ Fanny Burney
We discuss things, rather than ideas; we exchange information, not theories; we keep ourselves steady by thinking about the particular. The general is frightening.
~ Fay Weldon
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
~ Felix Adler
Another effect of this deplorable perversion of the law is, that it gives to human passions and to political struggles, and, in general, to politics, properly so called, an exaggerated preponderance. I
~ Frederic Bastiat
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.
~ blake william iv
The futility of bourgeois existence is extended to be that of the human situation in general, of existence per se.
~ bloch ernst ii
In the spring of 1825, four years after Red Cloud's birth, Brigadier General Henry Atkinson led one of the earliest American military expeditions up the Missouri River. Atkinson, a decorated veteran of the War of 1812, departed St. Louis for the Yellowstone and was charged with securing treaties of "perpetual friendship" with as many of the Northern Plains tribes as possible.
~ Bob Drury
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
~ Bob Hayes
Calvin Johnson, the New Jersey Dragons new general manager. Their dress shoes clacked
~ Harlan Coben
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
~ H. R. McMaster
Once I got my groove in WCW in '97, I'm pretty proud of the things I did there. By the time I got to WWE for DX, I may not have been as quick, but I was so far more well-rounded and a much more of a ring general.
~ Sean Waltman
Non-commercial general aviation flights serve as a lifeline to thousands of communities where airlines do not fly, while contributing a fraction of total U.S. air traffic congestion.
~ Mike Pompeo
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.
~ Gerard Debreu
I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.
~ Toussaint Louverture
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
~ Sophocles
Patton, it was said, loved horses more than he did most human beings.
~ Stephan Talty
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
~ Luther Burbank
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
~ Sophocles