#gene

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#belief #bias #control #dealing #derived

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting. ↗

— Tom Waits

#awkward #certain #generally #heavy #involved

You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! ↗

— Joe Biden

#better #better off #bin #bumper #bumper sticker

...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame our Holy Scripture. ... when they produce from any of their books a theory contrary to Scripture ... either we shall have some ability to demonstrate that it is absolutely false, or at least we ourselves will hold it so without any shadow of a doubt. ...let us choose [the doctrine] which appears as certainly the meaning intended by the author. ... For it is one thing to fail to recognize the primary meaning of the writer, and another to depart from the norms of religious belief. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#faith-in-genesis #faith

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#democratic #generous #most #open #our

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act. ↗

— Gerald Walpin

#acted #general #highest #i #independent

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#cooking #dance #eastern #generally #i

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#answer #aspect #background #because #blocked

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#baseball #baseball game #clock #explained #football

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#credit #generally #generals #get #soldiers