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I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.
Ricky Martin
America
Because
Been
Come
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
George Orson Welles
Hate women
Abstract way
Never learns
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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
George Soros
Financial markets
Unpredictable
Scenarios
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization
George Soros
Investment decision
Scientific hypothesis
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The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).
George Soros
Concept
General equilibrium
Relevance
Real world
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
Aid
Being
Better
Better World
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard
Because
Civilized
General
Having
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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
Robert Anton Wilson
About
Alone
Everything
Get
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
Harper Lee
People generally
See
Look for
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With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
Robert Orben
Bust
Corporal
Ever
General
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I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.
Lauren Graham
About
Always
Am
Been
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Leonard Cohen
Acute
Be True
Compassion
Despair
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The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.
Robert Duvall
Between
Catholics
Contrast
Cultural
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx
English
Generalization
Lack
Material
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If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.
Marcus Samuelsson
After
Banana
Best
Between
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Luke Bryan
Big
Fan
General
Sports
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Jackson Browne
Almost
Around
Began
College
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
Jacques Derrida
Entered
Language
Scene
Soon
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I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.
James Watson
Animal
Anxious
Be Happy
Because
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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
James Fenimore Cooper
Appreciated
Effects
Exceptions
General
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
James Franco
Actor
Actor
Film
General
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
James Madison
Commercial
Generally
Oppressive
Shackles
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We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.
Rudolf Steiner
Aside
Concerns
Conscious
Content
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Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
James McBride
Commercial
General
General Public
Hard
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen
Correct
General
Opinion
Where
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Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.
David Duchovny
Early
End
Know
Left
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform
Xenophon
Small risk
A general
Contempt
Lead
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
Xenophon
Neither numbers
Strength
Victory
Assistance
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Theodor Reik
Women
Loved
For what
Men
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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
Thomas Hardy
Happiness
Occasional episode
General drama
Pain
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
Yakubu Gowon
Trouble
Military
Ambition
General
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In any election, there is bound to be one issue or the other and you can’t really take a pocket of issue to judge the general conduct of the election.
Yahaya Bello
Any election
Bound to
One issue
Really take
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Let me take this opportunity to remind us all that the laws guiding the operation of this lockdown and the general security of the people are in force and relevant security agencies are on alert to ensure total compliance and guarantee the safety and security of the people.
Gboyega Oyetola
This opportunity
Remind us
Laws guiding
Operation
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
Blaise Pascal
Generally
Better persuaded
Reasons
Discover ourselves
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In terms of intelligence,Nigerians are generally okay,all they need is to be trained.
Jimoh Ibrahim
Intelligence
Generally okay
Need
Be trained
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Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Alain de Botton
Politics
So difficult
Only people
Quite up
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
Alain Badiou
Ethic
Truth
Complete opposite
Communication
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I wish to reiterate again the utmost regard of my Office for the entire judicial structure of Nigeria. This administration remains unrelenting in deepening the rule of law and the administration of justice in general.
Abubakar Malami
Wish
Reiterate
Utmost regard
My office
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The immediate desire of the office of the Attorney General of the Federation is the enforcement of our laws to confine impunity to the past.
Abubakar Malami
Immediate desire
Office
Attorney general
Federation
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those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut
Alan Dean Foster
Have
Mouths open
Ears shut
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Succeeding in life generally is like this. Not just in Nigeria. Challenges are not peculiar to Nigeria alone.
Lai Mohammed
Succeeding
Life
Generally
Like this
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
Alexander Herzen
Unaware
The absurdity
We introduce
Petty household
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
Alexander Hamilton
General purpose
One people
Individual citizen
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Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
Aldo Leopold
Tell me
Plat birthday
Man
Takes notice
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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Alexandre Dumas
General rule
People ask
Advice
Follow it
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it is my sincere appeal that we will live to the high expectation of the general public and our partners in charting a course for effective and efficient humanitarian service delivery to our vulnerable population.
Sadiya Umar Farouq
Sincere appeal
Will live
High expectation
General public
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We think in generalities, but we live in details.
Alfred North Whitehead
We think
Generalities
Live
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Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Alfred Marshall
Civilized
Country
Gold
Silver
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Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being
Amy Poehler
Your ability
Navigate
Tolerate change
Painful uncomfortableness
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney
People
Accept
Facts
Truth
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