#gene

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#because #big #big oil #campaign #doing

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#dead #general #great #maxim #military

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#close friends #dinner #friends #generally #having

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#general #i #just #keep #low

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#always #artist #elvis #generosity #highly

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #deterrence

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. ↗

— Demosthenes

#believes #dupe #easiest #generally #his

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. ↗

— Demosthenes

#against #democracies #despots #especially #generally

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#any #being #broader #context #experience

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#general #general principles #leaves #principles #root