#generally

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Tom Waits

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We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen. ↗

— James Buchan

#generally #ourselves #seen #write

Generally, we admire the thing we are not. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#generally #thing

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. ↗

— Demosthenes

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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. ↗

— Demosthenes

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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