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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Scott Adams

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

Robert J. Sawyer

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

ABA accreditation is another sign of the maturation of our region in general and of ULV College of Law in particular.

George Reyes

It is extremely brazen and it's a top-down fraud, ... It involved literally erasing expenses from the general ledger.

Jo White

The athletes were more accustomed to the area and we had a better plan. In general it was a better event.

Paul Huddle

I think he feels that he is in a crisis. He is behaving like a general in a battle.

Chemi Shalev

Trying to keep TSA out of the general aviation business.

John Price

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

I think the general feeling in England will be one that the sanction is far too lenient, and I would be one of those who thinks that way.

Gordon Taylor

In general, when a panic attack is coming on, the best thing to do is slow down. Walk more slowly, talk more slowly, breathe more slowly.

Clark Vinson

I started my career on General Duty in Fort St. John.

Tim Schewe

We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.

Larry Page

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

Louis Agassiz

In general, SARS is seen as a preferred creditor.

Adrian Lackay

The common man is really put out a lot, and this creates a general panic which has taken place in India.

Ambika Soni

Attorney General Cox looks forward to talking about his record.

Rusty Hills

In general we are observing more and more heavy rain-associated disasters in the region.

Srikantha Herath

It all adds to the general perception that politics are no good and politicians are a bunch of bums.

Louis Post

I think they do that not just with the election, but in general.

Charley Pride

The general inflation situation and prospects are good.

Jonathan Faull

The reduction to the attorney general is the same one we've applied to every cabinet in our administration.

Brett Hall

This goes with creating an awareness of skiing in general. Miller's films are about extreme skiing, and they get people excited.

Tom Stevens

In general I'm not in favor of a service charge.

Jeffrey Chodorow

The general consensus is, when people go to college, the most popular place is the gym. They meet people and get in shape.

Laurel Vicidomino

There's a general acceptance now that house price growth is a problem.

Denis Casey

His general condition is quite good.

Michael Debakey

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Theodor Reik

I can't say when we're going to be exactly on top of delinquencies, but in general we are making progress.

Ron Slaymaker

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

Charles Horton Cooley

The attorney general could start there and perhaps set something more firm.

David Wald

In the course of April 2006, the Secretary-General is likely to propose a broader strategy.

Alex P. Schmid

We talked in general terms about a new contract, but we were going to be too far apart.

Dave Kasper

Driving during a heart attack is obviously extremely dangerous for both the driver and the general public.

Sharon O'donnell

In general, the passage of the budget is expected to go smoothly, given it contains little that is new or controversial.

Damian Fraser

General Casey could determine after the elections that, I want more, for whatever reason, ... and then he'll get more.

Lawrence Di Rita

They're not robbing banks because they got laid off from their jobs at General Motors.

Frank Bochte

This is not the Prussian general staff. They don't think about operations the way we think about operations.

Brian Jenkins

I don't want to approve something, collect the money and not have the (general fund) money to match it.

Patricia Cox

The general trend is that attackers aren't concentrating on 'far and wide,' worms, but on financial gain.

Oliver Friedrichs

We have decided to do so because of the general security situation in the country.

Lars Thuesen

The falling rupiah ... puts general pressure on Asian currencies.

David Mann

Energy prices in general have been going up, as are concerns about energy security and climate change.

George Stone

It is wrong to use aviation taxes to finance a general tax cut.

Bud Shuster

This is a first step, so we're not constantly looking at the general fund.

Nina Trasoff

In general, we're pleased that fans of our shows see fit to create tributes to our shows and actors.

Chris Ender

The challenger has an uphill fight. If he's lucky enough to win and gets to the general election, he's going to be broke.

David Souter

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

Duff Green

We want to make it clear to the U.N. Secretary-General ( Kofi Annan ) himself that those sites are well-defined.

Nizar Hamdoon

Our (bargaining) committee saw a big difference right away out on the production floor and in general meetings. They're was more of a personal aspect to it.

Tim Giles

Women in general were rare in the science fiction field, and black women, ha.

Steven Barnes

The General Assembly has chosen Tunisia and we are all looking forward to a productive meeting there.

Shashi Tharoor

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Lane Kirkland

They say, 'No, no, it's too much paperwork, and the attorney general is not trying to help' and they don't do anything.

Fernando Morones

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Joseph Priestley

It comes out of your general operating fund.

Pam Harmon

I opened too early. I was confident the choreography was beautiful. In general, I'm really happy.

Stephane Lambiel

Parents are the experts on their own children because each child is so different. But, Catherine is the expert on children in general.

Barbara Brownell

A general meeting will be scheduled as soon as possible.

Joseph O'sullivan

I think there is a kind of general deference that is accorded the prosecutors.

Fc Dallas

What the attorney general is trying to do here is well intentioned. But this is only addressing part of the problem.

Cory Davies

Fire ants can sting and bite, and can do that seven or eight times within the same general area.

John Claypool

The annual general meeting May 4 is a date where the things will be resolved, one way or the other.

David Begleiter

We're just glad that we could do this for the families involved and for the public in general.

Robert Stevens

Enlist the aid of every organization out there to alert the general public of everything going on.

Tom Tancredo

The outline reflects the general will of the public.

Ma Kai

We're following the evolution of tennis in general a little bit.

Stephane Simean

Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but so what?

Henry Hewitt

General Barker was a guy that was kind of larger than life.

Bruce Gombar

He was dropped off at Elkhart General Hospital and the person who dropped him off left the hospital.

Trevor Wendzonka

There is no downside to this tax. It's the most effective thing the legislature can do in this year's General Assembly.

Renee Martin

The attorney-general has to charge those responsible for the assault, however high they may be.

Karpal Singh

The first opportunity for a general election is Nov. 6, 2007, so we'll start with that date.

Pam Dedent

We've had a lot of people from Jackson General up here helping us move files, move things.

Karon Harrison

We don't issue attorney general opinions to private citizens. And we're not the boss of the county commission. In terms of compelling the county commission to do something, we can't do that.

Lynn Solomon

We have moved from can General Motors go bankrupt to when will it go bankrupt. This is a dangerous company because of its size.

Daniel Broby

But I think there's a general consensus that times have changed, and we've been more fortunate than anything else that we've only had 9/11.

Michael Mccann

We understood these flows in a general way, but the details were unclear, so we could not use them to make predictions before.

Mausumi Dikpati

The disconnect is not between us and forecasters, it's between us and people in general.

Kurt Gurley

She has had and has a great deal of difficulty functioning in life in general.

Jonathan Crisp

I thought it was extremely compelling. You couldn't have scripted it better -- reluctant general making the case for war.

Chuck Gabriel

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman

They're in the same general vicinity ... there could be some synergies.

Michael Fowler

Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did.

Rick Springfield

I think we have to take care of the ball. In general, that has been our Achilles' heal.

Mary Klinger

That money would have come out of our general fund, ... That's a lot of books.

Dennis Murray

There is a need for dissemination of general legal information, which is something a community law centre can assist with significantly.

Colin Smith

We took our foot off the gas and could have paid for it in the end. Just general sloppiness.

Graham Whitehouse

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Patrick Burke

The report was very confusing. The general consensus feeling is that no one knows what, if anything the Fed is going to do.

Jeff Cheah

We feel (Notre Dame) would be a tremendous game for our program and college football in general.

Kevin Anderson

This is a sweet victory for the Catholic League, Christians in general, and people of all faiths.

Bill Donohue

We already have some specific language about proper behavior in general.

Sterling Ivey

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Margaret Oliphant

In general there's been more competition among jurisdictions than overt cooperation.

Michael Enright

In our opinion they have been making very good progress. Most have ended up in the general area.

Patrick Flood

It's a pressing issue in the African-American community and for the larger general public.

Anthony Clark

We hope he gets drafted on the first day. It's great for us and the Ivy League in general.

Jim Knowles

The timing is no accident. We feel like we'll have our general manager of the future in place at that point.

Jeff Moorad

The adjutants general all agree that we need to be at 350,000 ... and indications are that this year we can get there again, so in our view that has to be funded up front.

Roger Lempke

On the situation in Angola, the commission had expressed hope that the general elections scheduled for 2006 would entrench that country's democracy.

Festus Mogae

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

Taylor Caldwell

To close Reagan down to general aviation sends the wrong signal.

Jim Moran

I don't see Ford or General Motors offering below-market cars for low-income families.

Joseph Narkiewicz

Fashion is general. Style is individual.

Edna Woolman Chase

These are considered laws of general application.

Michael Baker

Right now the focus is on the General Assembly.

Bob Aherin

In general, farmers are going to be a little bit leery of that.

John Kuhfuss

The UK could face a digital winter of discontent during the run-up to the next general election.

Philip Virgo

There's more inventory in general. There is still more supply than there is demand for online advertising.

Denise Garcia

This does nothing for the prospect for reform, in Germany or Europe in general.

Rob Henderson

If a criminal trial started against him, then it is very probable that the general dies before there is a verdict.

Ricardo Israel

In general, I guess I'd liken it to a bees' or a hornets' nest.

Pat White

My role is to be the floor general and that won't change. The biggest thing will be the minutes (played).

Sharika Webb

I can tell you that Sen. Graham is concerned about energy costs in general.

Kevin Bishop

For the good of Israel, the date of March 7 (for general elections) cannot be delayed.

Amir Peretz

No. It's very much like a general anesthesia. They do not remember.

Dr. Gaylan Rockswold

We are looking to reach decision-makers as well as the general public.

Paul Konove

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov

The general view is that he's weak. People expected more leadership from him.

Salah Abdel Shafi

We thought there was an opportunity in a more general way for anybody to make content available to us.

Salar Kamangar

The decision was politically motivated, and I don't respect the attorney general one iota.

Don Bowers

With 14 months till Election day, the attorney general is looking strong.

Joe Caruso

The intention there is to get general revenue out of funding that stadium quicker.

Ann Stock

The general picture from the housing market has not changed.

George Buckley

There was a general awareness in the countries affected that there would be problems, but the magnitude has caught everyone unawares.

Peter Weller

I think it is probably a good general description of American foreign policy that we don't have as much control as we think we do.

Stephen Biddle

In general, high yield has been one of the brighter lights in the domestic bond fund world.

Sarah Bush

In general there is pretty good competition at these meets.

Jonathan Taylor

They're far more motivated than the general population here, and they have stronger family values.

Dave Penry

There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing trend that I was not aware of.

Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie

The general view is that they paid a very full price.

Neil Austin

As a general thing to do, I just don't recommend it.

Paul Breslin

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

Vladimir Horowitz

The Core gave birth to a lot of fantastically good courses that would not have existed in all likelihood without that kind of general education or core requirement.

Stephan Thernstrom

We have nice balance through the grades. We have good numbers in general.

Aaron Oldfield

The governor appreciates the General Assembly's efforts to help clarify her authority over the flag in this situation.

Judd Everhart

I've not been enamored with the industry in general. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.

Robert Brooks

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Joseph Marie De Maistre

It's a good indicator of just general growth, which benefits all areas of the economy.

Chuck Ewings

Considering this progress, and in the general interest of the country, I ask farmers to lift the barricades in the coming hours.

Luc Guyau

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We're giving credence to these because we referred them to Inspectors General of Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior.

Allen Benson

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Carl Andre

We are very familiar with the phone number of our general counsel.

John Heisler

It's so flawed that we think the attorney general should just withdraw it. You cannot fix it by tinkering with it.

Danny Chun

His voice and tone were similar to the secretary-general.

Wang Guoliang

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

Jeffrey Bewkes

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law.

Immanuel Kant

I would say in general that (teachers said) they wanted to have more input as to the content of those days.

Richard Stokes

Has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

John Kitzhaber

The attorney general received FBI briefings, and challenged the FBI to do everything possible to confront the threat, ... He repeatedly asked them, 'What are you doing? What more can we do?' .

Mark Corallo

There was a general feeling in the club at that time that they really didn't want us.

John Burton

But the ambulance fund owes the county's general fund $100,000. That's down from $160,000 when I started, but we can't do much until that is paid back.

Paul Petty

We would strongly disagree with his characterization. The attorney general was forthright and candid and answered all the questions fully.

Michael Bradford

By being able to move back and forth between different worlds, he could say more about the world in general.

Philip Brookman

I have two older brothers, the general and David, who is a teacher. My sister, Sarah, also is a teacher.

Ben Shelton

Because of more corporate money, schools will get more general-scholarship money. And that's something we are excited about it.

Commissioner Leon Kerry

A lot of money has been spent on the fight against AIDS in general... but we haven't put enough money into children.

Rima Salah

This issue - whether to put them on trial again, and on the basis of what law ... is currently in the hands of the attorney general.

Tzippi Livni

The philosophy of this place is general cooking for people who cook for the people they love. This is basic cooking for people you care about.

Frank Locante

In refusing to go to court for a stay, the attorney general acknowledged reality: The case is over.

Mary Bonauto

A good general goes to battle with his soldiers.

Bradford Cohen

Card rates are rising faster than the rise in general interest rates.

Justin Mchenry

The general secretary is usually elected by the NEC at the first meeting after annual conference.

Julian Robinson

In general, the classic definition of a consumer tax traditionally is regressive.

Bert Waisanen

I'd like to see more culture in general happening ... Because there's not much out here in the way of cultural venues.

Maria Klein

It was a general impression of her of being competent, of her being honest, and very, very well-educated. It became clear that Ellen was the best chance for this country.

Larry Gibson

We have 34,000 sworn officers, not every one of them follows our general orders.

Matt Jablow

Point to recession in both the manufacturing sector and the general economy.

Philadelphia Fed

We are expressing confidence in the Secretary General and in his continuing in office,'.

John C. Danforth

I don't believe the speeches are phony, in general. In most cases, they probably really do admire each other.

Pete Hammond

As I go out and about, the general public isn't aware of some of that.

Rep. Charles Blasdel

In general, it's a bad idea. The world definitely doesn't need any more Beatles covers.

Adam Schlesinger

In six games so far I can't remember us creating so many chances. But that's football, that's life in general. No one said it would be easy.

Nigel Worthington

For the general community in Canada, I would say that this is a reminder of the importance of keeping your children immunized.

Harry Hull

We feel it would be a nice addition to our club and the area in general.

Barb Flammond

The euro is doing fine, ... It is consolidating, but in general will continue to strengthen.

Bob Lynch

We saw this coming, in a general sense; certainly not the actual way it was done.

Paul Bremer

The General Assembly has already set the policy. The opinion is that this is outside the bounds and the authority of the governor.

Tucker Martin

We have assisted the Office of the Attorney General with its probe into the matter.

Lance Clem

No increase in the fire district's general tax rate would be required, which was an essential component of the proposal.

John Flynn

The principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people.

James Fenimore Cooper

The market in general is not anywhere near the peaks it hit during the end of the bubble.

Russ Koesterich

This reflects general globalization trends.

Gwyn Hacche

When the (attorney general) says what he says, one way or the other, then I'll go with it.

John Moise

In general, the number of disorders has increased (to the current 256 classification codes), partly because disorder categories have been split and partly because 'new' disorders have appeared.

Jane Mcleod

It appears the (attorney general) singled out these two residents to set an example but failed to carefully investigate the facts before bringing the indictment.

Mike Phillips

She can always say that she's following the dictates of the law and doing her duty as attorney general. And it's clearly a great honor to argue a case in front of this court.

Dante Scala

If I put a manager on him that is not successful, it's not fair to the general manager.

Kevin Mcclatchy

Anyone from the general public can come in and scan their hard drive at any time.

Sal Viveros

It's odd, ... It's a very rare event to even have a pressurization problem and, in general, crews are very well trained to deal with it.

Terry Mcvenes

He is not here to interview for a coaching job. He is not here to evaluate the coach, he is not here to evaluate the general manager.

Bob Mcnair

Everybody is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure.

Anthony Eden

It's been good for the hotels in general, but there have been some problems.

Joan Johnson

We are not encouraging the general public to go into the streets looking for shelter.

Bill White