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«A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.»
«As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.»
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
«If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.»
«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.»
«As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer»
«In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires»
«Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.»
«A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.»
«Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.»

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