#generally

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person? ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #bitter #childlike #could #dark

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

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When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#anxiety #await #begins #curiosity #entrance

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen. ↗

— James Buchan

#generally #ourselves #seen #write

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. ↗

— Demosthenes

#believes #dupe #easiest #generally #his

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. ↗

— Demosthenes

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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

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