#gene

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

#bull #country #destroyed #forests #general

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #best #china #find #generally

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. ↗

— William Allen White

#common man #generally #grafted #greatness #man

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world. ↗

— George Whitefield

#book #find #generations #god #kinds

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced? ↗

— George Whitefield

#belong #christianity #duties #generally #how

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#consists #european #footnotes #general #philosophical

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#generalities #live #think

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#defensive #divide #generally #hats #into

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #children #down #first #generation

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#generates #good #itself #mathematical #mathematics