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General Sense Quotes (page 2)

The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation,... George Washington
At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally. But even then his concentration was marred, for a lifetime's habit made him inconveniently watchful for his own name. He saw it as if in bold. It could leap out at him from an unread double page of small print, and sometimes he could sense it coming before the page turn. Ian Mcewan
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh. Ambrose Bierce
Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. Leon Foucault
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work. Karlheinz Stockhausen
There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation. Larry David
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. Walter Pater
Trey Parker quote: "Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor..."
Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike. Trey Parker
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things. Walter F. Ulmer
In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid. Wilhelm Ostwald
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. Mercy Otis Warren
Steve Chabot quote: "If people use common sense and their own guiding moral..."
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble. Steve Chabot
Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction? Bjorn Lomborg
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. Robert Caro
John Griffin Carlisle quote: "In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term..."
In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader. John Griffin Carlisle

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