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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

Affect People Positive Lucky
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If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

Active Young Want Poor
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It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

Team Player Logical Natural
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Long Idea Down General
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As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

Judge Desire Matter Rule
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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Child Soldier General Monk
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Ages Generals Knights Like
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The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they’re generally not the ones being touted in the news.

Shows Millions World News
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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

Best Biggest Court Decided
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Best Convinced General Opinions
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I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Anything Buy General Me
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

About Album Extended Family
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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Above Act Avoidance Breaking
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Because Brief Brief Moment Change
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

After Cold Disease Faint
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Expected Generally Sing Slaves
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

After Because Hidden Like
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Deserves Generally Goodness His
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Fear not for pick 2 is not check up. Pick your 2 and strategize on how you are going to drop your general market or even pick 3 as the game goes on.

Fear Pick Drop Strategize
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

About Always Damn Generally
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The thing about getting older is that with each passing day you know yourself better, find your voice more and generally become better aware.

Aware Better Know Passing
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Advances Country Disgrace Fame
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Battle Before Beforehand Calculations
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Achievements Conquer Enemy Enlightened
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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Caution Enlightened Full General
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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Attack Defend Defense Does
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Achieve Army Enlightened General
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Anxious Error General Loudest
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among Cannot Corrupt Exist
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Blatant Could Failure General
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Advice Arm Children General
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Caribbean Completion General Good
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Anything Attitude Day Enjoy
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Betrayal Exploration Feels Female
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

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

Body Dawn Day Enlighten
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I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Atlantic Balloon Boat Brush
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Easy Evil Generally Little
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Abolish Act Association Begins
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I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

About Being Dad Four
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

After Death Desire General
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
Favorites General Office Same
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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.

Advantage Against Democracy Despot
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Counselors Distinguish Generally Leaders
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Capable Counselors Distinguishing Generally
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Because Excluded Felicity General
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Barack Brings Difference Discomfort
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