I Quotes
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“In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...”
Source: Jewish Wisdom
“In general, Mark was right; love was a business predestined for failure. I should have poked my head out of the sand in time and asked whether my husband loved me or not.”
Source: Why
“In general, markets have well-known inefficiencies. One is that transactions do not take into account the effect on others who are not party to them. These so-called externalities can be huge. That is particularly so in the case of financial institutions. Their task is to take risks, and if well managed, to ensure that potential losses to themselves will be covered. To themselves. Under capitalist rules, it is not their business to consider the cost to others. Risk is underpriced, because systemic risk is not priced into decisions. That leads to repeated crisis, naturally. This inherent deficiency of markets is well known.”
Source: Hopes and Prospects
“In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.”
Source: Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand
“In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.”
“In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena
“In general, one cannot go back. But in going forward, you may achieve some of what you desired of the past. If you can survive, anything may happen. - The Old One”
Source: Superior Saturday
“In general, our generals were out generalled.”
“In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of accumulating impressive amounts of knowledge within a relatively short period of time. Nevertheless, even the greatest genius possesses only a small fraction of all knowledge known by mankind. Finally, the following question arises: how large is all the existing knowledge in comparison to the space of ignorance?”
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual's life energy.
Humans connect with humans. Hiding one's humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting.”
Source: No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life
“In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.”
“In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.”
“In general, people’s views of the Old Testament have often been determined by the picture they see of its social consequences and implications.”
“In general, people who aren't in touch with their emotions tend to think their emotions are unimportant.”
Source: Sphere
“In general, placental animals would move slower than marsupials, which can collect their young (e.g., in pouches) and continue migrating. Many placental animals need to stop and settle for a time to raise their young but, theoretically, great varieties of land animals could have gone to any region of Europe, Asia, and Africa.”
Source: A Flood of Evidence: 40 Reasons Noah and the Ark Still Matter
“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.”
Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes
“In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.”
“In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience.”
“In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.”
“In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.”
Source: Wolf Willow
“In general, the Fascist and Nazi regimes had no serious difficulty establishing control over public services. They largely protected civil servants’ turf from party intrusion and left their professional identity intact. Civil servants were frequently in broad sympathy with fascist regimes’ biases for authority and order against parliament and the Left, and they appreciated enhanced freedom from legal restraint. Eliminating Jews sometimes opened up career advancement.
The police were the key agency, of course. The German police were very quickly removed from the normative state and brought under Nazi Party control via the SS. Himmler, supported by Hitler against rivals and the Ministry of the Interior, which traditionally controlled the police, ascended in April 1933 from political police commander of Bavaria (where he set up the first concentration camp at Dachau) to chief of the whole German police system in June 1936.
This process was facilitated by the disgruntlement many German police had felt for the Weimar Republic and its “coddling of criminals,” and by the regime’s efforts to enhance police prestige in the eyes of the public. By 1937, the annual congratulatory “Police Day” had expanded from one day to seven. Initially the SA were deputized as auxiliary Exercising Power police in Prussia, but this practice was ended on August 2, 1933, and the police faced no further threat of dilution from party militants. They enjoyed a privileged role above the law as the final arbiters of their own form of unlimited “police justice.”
While the German police were run more directly by Nazi Party chiefs than any other traditional state agency, the Italian police remained headed by a civil servant, and their behavior was little more unprofessional or partisan than under previous governments. This is one of the most profound differences between the Nazi and Fascist regimes. The head of the Italian police for most of the Fascist period was the professional civil servant Arturo Bocchini. There was a political police, the OVRA, but the regime executed relatively few political enemies.
Another crucial instrument of rule was the judiciary. Although very few judges were Nazi Party members in 1933, the German magistracy was already overwhelmingly conservative. It had established a solid track record of harsher penalties against communists than against Nazis during the 1920s. In exchange for a relatively limited invasion of their professional sphere by the party’s Special Courts and People’s Court, the judges willingly submerged their associations in a Nazi organization and happily accepted the powerful role the new regime gave them.71 The Italian judiciary was little changed, since political interference had already been the norm under the liberal monarchy. Italian judges felt general sympathy for the Fascist regime’s commitment to public order and national grandeur.”
Source: The Anatomy of Fascism
“In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner.”
Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.”
Source: Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
“In general the relative value of the various religions is a very difficult thing to discern; it is almost impossible, perhaps quite impossible. For a religion is known only from inside.”
Source: Waiting for God
“In general, the well-off have the money to outsource their deforesting as they buy food and other commodities grown by clearing land in other countries. As we have seen, they don’t stop deforesting, they just do it somewhere far from home.”
Source: A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World
“In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.”
“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”
“In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.”
Source: Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longer
“In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.”
Source: Rasselas
“In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.”
“In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.”
“In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being contradictory, are yet very different: on the one hand it means what is familiar and agreeable, and on the other, what is concealed and kept out of sight. Unheimlich is customarily used, we are told, as the contrary only of the first signification of heimlich, and not of the second. [...] On the other hand, we notice that Schelling says something which throws quite a new light on the concept of the Unheimlich, for which we were certainly not prepared. According to him, everything is unheimlich that ought to have remained secret and hidden but has come to light.”
Source: The Uncanny
“In general, we’re all so much stronger than we tend to believe we are – when you lean into ACCEPTANCE instead of resistance of a situation, then you can always turn it into something that reveals your strengths instead of something that feeds into your illusions of weakness.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one. .. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio.”
“In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are. A Buddha is a person who is completely free from all faults and mental obstructions. There are many people who have become Buddhas in the past, and many people will become Buddhas in the future.”
“In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.”
Source: The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again
“In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.”
“In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.”
“In general, advertising isn't a "creative" atmosphere. It's a business atmosphere and your job is puzzle solving. My favorite aspect of the business, I guess, was presenting to clients. What I enjoyed least were the clients. Worried corporate brand managers, trying to dumb-down their ads for the stupid American population. I hated the disrespect that these people had for "consumers."”
“In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.”
“In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.”
“In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.”
“In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.”
“In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth.”
“In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically healthy, (e) independent and successful in his or her chosen career or lifestyle, and (f) aware of a meaningful existence that includes humanitarian values.”
“In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.”
“In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)