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I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.


Jon Ronson


#center #did #feel #flown #general

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.


Eleanor Roosevelt


#definite #ever #everyone #generalities #go

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#colleagues #fellow #i #i can #pick

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#class #class consciousness #consciousness #destinies #general

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#brief #brief moment #change #comes #embodiment

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.


Theodore Roosevelt


#get #great #had #his #known

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.


Antonia Fraser


#biographies #emergence #fully #gap #historical

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.


Elihu Root


#become #case #community #conduct #continued

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.


Elihu Root


#come #control #exclude #generations #human

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.


Rick Ross


#also #campuses #efforts #general #helpful