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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama

Anger, Human, Brain

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Evil, Body

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai Lama

Thinking, Country, Sometimes

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson

Enemy, Wishes, Says

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma Gandhi

May, Down, Moral

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Victory, Sometimes

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Business, Wisdom

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West

Temptation, Unless, Avoid

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau

Speaking, Wilderness, Traveler

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

Good, Best, Experience

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard

Moving, Someone, Done

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

Pretty, Problem, Sure

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers

Truth, Hurts, Proportion

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato

Change, Direction, Whether

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton

Men, Fear, Brave

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson Mandela

Politics, Time, Busy

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Chance, Goes

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Wisdom, Mediocrity, Discourage

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung

Others, Healthy, Turn

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie

Person, Far, Goes

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Win, Soldiers, Credit

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander Hamilton

God, Judge, True

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox

Nice, Strange, Guitar

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter Drucker

Mistakes, Two, Big

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke

Long, Liberty, Cannot

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney

Truth, Accept, Facts

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

Human, Actually, Majority

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Titus Livius

End, Betray, However

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

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