#genera

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#exclusivity #general #in my opinion #me #opinion

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

I'm pretty hard on myself in general. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#hard #i #myself #pretty

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ↗

— Colin Powell

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You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions. ↗

— Keith Richards

#going #guitar #maybe #millions #organisation

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

#direction #full #generally #get #hand

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#dwelling #edifice #foundation #freer #freudian

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#come #different #discover #generations #i

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. ↗

— St. Jerome

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