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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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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people. ↗

— Donald Trump

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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. ↗

— Carl Jung

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We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

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I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.' ↗

— Christoph Waltz

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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. ↗

— Queen Victoria

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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

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