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86 quotesThese capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Capitalism
Abraham Lincoln
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Walter Lippmann
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Generals
Douglas Macarthur
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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Government
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
Judgment and Judges
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Humankind
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Freedom
Joseph De Maistre
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The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
Experts
Marcel Masse
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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
Change
Susanna Moodie
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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Temptation
Margaret Oliphant
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Time is generally the best doctor.
Doctors
Ovid
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Fathers
William Penn
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Reputation
Pliny The Elder
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Charm
Marcel Proust
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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
Habit
Marcel Proust
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Pride
John Ruskin
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Life and Living
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Ideas
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Critics and Criticism
William Shenstone
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Action
Samuel Smiles
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Prayer
Socrates
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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Spanish Proverb
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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Association
Philip Dormer Stanhope
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Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
Behavior
Henry David Thoreau
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Battles
Barbara Tuchman
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun