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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Livy
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
J. L. Austin
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
Lorraine Hansberry
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.
Mikhail Lermontov
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Alan Turing
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire
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