Quotes About General

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.

The importance of the base rate was made famous by the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who coined the phrase "the outside view and the inside view." The inside view means looking at the specific case in front of you: this couple. The outside view requires you to look at a more general "comparison class" of cases—here, the comparison class is all married couples. (The outside view needn't be statistical, but it often will be.)

Civil War general Robert E. Lee said famously that it was a good thing war was so terrible, "otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Das Persönliche ist das Allgmeine.

the "singularity" that classic general relativity anticipated disappears as soon as we take quantum gravity into account.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

We Eat the Wrong Kinds of Fats: A typical American diet averages 34 to 40 percent fat. Even as far back as 1988, the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health attributed 35 percent of cancer deaths to diet, saying

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

The Republican establishment who did not want Trump to win - either the primary, in some cases the general - they were unable to do anything that impacted the actual vote.

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

… as General Berringer would readily admit, "If you're in a fair fight, I've done something wrong.

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.

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.