#general

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

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So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot. ↗

— Anna Paquin

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I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character. ↗

— Guy Pearce

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Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

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