#general rule

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress. ↗

— Maurice Wilkins

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Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence. ↗

— George C. Williams

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As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception. ↗

— Paul Haggis

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Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule. ↗

— Tim Cook

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As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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