#genera

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#distance #element #general #individuals #less

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep. ↗

— Peter Singer

#best #better #break #children #easier

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#asian #asian countries #been #character #chronic

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#anybody #does #general #general public #i

Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#creepy #generally #honestly #i #up

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#easy #evil #generally #little #men

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#children #come #curse #generations #go

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#depriving #desire #does #general #justify

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#atmosphere #breaking #course #generally #greenland

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#art #contemporary #difference #enough #generation