#genera

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#arguably #clearly #david #first #fiscal

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#generation #i #over #part #taken

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#children #cumulative #each #gained #generation

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words. ↗

— Xun Zi

#breadth #danger #earth #every #every step

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly. ↗

— Richard Whately

#blessing #generally #god #make #men

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#been #conquerors #despised #generally #his

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#appearances #day #even #every #every day

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#convince #damage #done #far #far less

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful