A Quotes
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“A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.”
Source: Memoir of William Ellery Channing: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts
“A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."”
“A general must be a charlatan.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.”
Source: Spain
“A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.”
“A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.”
“A general principle concerning the gender of bears has been established years ago by bear supervisor König from Bern, after over thirty years of observation. It allows for predictions and states, in short, that when a female bear bears three cubs, and they aren't all male or female, it will invariably be either two males and a female, or two females and a male.”
“A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.”
Source: Designing Web Usability
“A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.”
“A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.”
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
“A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.”
“A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.”
“A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen.”
“A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.”
Source: On Liberty
“A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.”
“A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.”
Source: On War
“A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?”
“a generalized anxiety about the long-term viability of the social, economic and political foundation of the island-nation has been transformed into a set of ideological justifications for and instrumental practices of tight social and political control, which taken together constitutes the authoritarianism of the regime.”
Source: Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
“A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.”
“A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.”
“A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.”
“A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.”
“A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.”
Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
“A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.”
“A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us”
Source: On Education
“A generation has disappeared or changed direction. A backfire against theoretical radicalism – and one in which socialism has played its part. The symbolic murder of the intellectual class, not at all unlike the symbolic murder of the political class by the silent majorities.”
Source: Cool memories
“A generation has more in common, after all, than a nation, than a profession.”
Source: I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years
“A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.”
“A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“A generation of children has been betrayed.”
“A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces. Jane Clark, a University of Maryland professor of kinesiology . . . calls them "containerized kids"--they spend more and more time in car seats, high chairs, and even baby seats for watching TV. When small children go outside, they're often placed in containers--strollers--and pushed by walking or jogging parents. . . Most kid-containerizing is done for safety concerns, but the long term health of these children is compromised. (35)”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.”
“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”
Source: Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell
“a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“A generation that finds itself at the crux of such change has a significant responsibility for shaping the new ways of thinking that will define not only its own age but also that of the coming era. When Christians get it right at such times, adapting themselves to changing culture and finding new language for timeless truths, the gospel spreads more easily for years to come because it makes sense to people. However, when the church gets it wrong by resisting change and enshrining nostalgia, we risk apparent irrelevance and an upward struggle.
Will Jesus Christ be famous and favoured in the coming age, or will he be a peripheral choice on the menu of social preference? You can call the culture 'progressive', 'emerging' or 'postmodern', but the challenge is the same: to reinvent the church without changing the message, to reach this generation for the sake of the generation to come.”
Source: Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation
“A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.”
“A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.”
Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
“A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.”
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.”
“A generosidade foi e será sempre um dos mais poderosos elementos para dominar e commover as massas. Sabem-o os especuladores politicos, que tanto se esforçam por simulal-a, quando precisam do povo.”
Source: A Morgadinha dos Canaviais - Tomo I
“A generous action is its own reward.”
“A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.”
“A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.”
“A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.”
“A generous figure is always nice.”
“A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another”
“A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.”
Source: The Iliad
“A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer