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Tag Name "General" (2915)

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General, said the commander of the delinquent brigade, I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
Ambrose Bierce
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General Lee, I have no division.
George Pickett
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General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.
Suetonius
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General Colin Powell shocked a lot of people in Washington by speaking out against President Bush's policies, saying that the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. That's what I think he said - it was hard to hear him because he was being hustled out of the room to his cell in Guantanamo Bay.
Jay Leno
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General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
Marvin Minsky
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?
John Brown Gordon
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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
William Blake
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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
William Bolitho
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General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.
Henry Howarth Bashford
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General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.
Paul Davies
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General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.
Peter R. Mansoor
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General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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General consultant to mankind.
George Bernard Shaw
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General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
Ralph Nader
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General Motors committed likewise to invest billions of dollars in its American manufacturing operation, keeping many jobs here that were going to leave. And if I didn't get elected, believe me, they would have left, and these jobs and these things that I am announcing would never have come here.
Donald Trump
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General James Mattis is a storied and much-respected military leader.
Michele Flournoy
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General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.
James K. Polk
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General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!
John S. Mosby
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
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General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Chief Joseph
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General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.
Edward Everett
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