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• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intelligent, General, Humour

• Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

  Rick Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in General, Helpful

• 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

  Topics in Humor, Life

  Tags in Men, General

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  Iris Murdoch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Survive, Comfort, General

• I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone’s going to tell you how to do it and why. I’ve always said to other mothers and women when they’ve asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

  Brooke Burke

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  Tags in Child, General

• I don’t surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

  Brian Harold May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in General, Surfing

• Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off – I’m talking 100km or 200km long – every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

  Ian Allison

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  Tags in General, Carvings

• But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

  Friedrich List

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  Tags in General, Supply, Strength

• I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Advantage, General, Technique

• We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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  Tags in Conditions, Equilibrium, General

• We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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  Tags in Social, Information, General

• Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

  Fred Allen Boyd Jr.

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  Tags in Replacement, General

• One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in General, Understanding, Logic

• The general consensus seems to be that I don’t act at all.

  Frank James Cooper

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  Tags in Consensus, General

• Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

  Bernard Montgomery

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in General

• Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

  Francois Fenelon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excellent, Nothing, General

• It’s true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in General, Oppose

• It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

  Francis William Aston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greater, General, Explain

• As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they’re a bunch of powerful legislators… and I’m afraid they’re going to cut my budget.

  Ben Chandler

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  Tags in General

• It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

  Francis Crick

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  Tags in Possibly, General