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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. ↗

— Felix Adler

#affecting #been #community #conviction #day

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. ↗

— Aristotle

#because #brings #evil #fear #generality

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#again #assumption #because #broad #crawling

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff. ↗

— Rick Baker

#frankenstein #generation #grew #many #mummy

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#because #different #door #general #genre

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship #general #made #man #ought

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#because #been #completely #cyclical #everything

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live. ↗

— John Avlon

#aspect #between #brand #centrist #choice

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#countless #cumulative #develop #efforts #even