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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of it's instinct to revolt (General Quotes)
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to it's rule and it's credit (General Quotes)
I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube (General Quotes)
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body (General Quotes)
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be (General Quotes)
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science (General Quotes)
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed.... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement (General Quotes)
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her (General Quotes)
Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied (General Quotes)
it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes? (General Quotes)
There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education (General Quotes)
Ladies, a general welcome from his grace salutes ye all. This night he dedicates to fair content, and you. None here, he hopes, in all this noble bevy, has brought with her one care abroad. He would have all as merry as first, good company, good wine, good welcome can make good people (General Quotes)
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform (General Quotes)
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute (General Quotes)
To hold you in perpetual amity, to make you brothers, and to knit your hearts with an unslipping knot, take Antony Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims no worse a husband than the best of men; whose virtue and whose general graces speak that which none else can utter (General Quotes)
Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care take hold on me; for my particular grief is of so floodgate and overbearing nature that it engluts and swallows other sorrows, and it is still itself (General Quotes)
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag waver, bunting hanger up, drum beater, you name it, for poetry (General Quotes)
Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me (General Quotes)
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation (General Quotes)
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man (General Quotes)
The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves (General Quotes)
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward (General Quotes)
Yet, in spite of this world wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale (General Quotes)
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity (General Quotes)
Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market (General Quotes)
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others (General Quotes)
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life (General Quotes)
A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick it's pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone (General Quotes)
For spiritual blessings, let our prayers be importunate, perpetual and persevering; for temporal blessings, let them be general, short, conditional and modest (General Quotes)
What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth (General Quotes)