#general

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#central #exist #existence #fact #general

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#call #generally #i #i love #know

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#discovery #general #hesitation #i #i can

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#because #caused #dad #funny #generalities

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#command #general #good #him #his

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#fear #general #know #liberated #need

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #country #culture #cut #cutting

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#artificially #bred #country #economy #fear

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#afternoon #between #breakfast #clock #earlier

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#maxim #nothing #useless