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  • In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world. -- Justin Rosenstein
  • Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. -- George Mason
  • There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
  • So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. -- William Blackstone
  • Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good. -- Henry Knox
  • As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. -- John Stuart Mill
  • He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. -- William Blake
  • FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. -- Felix Adler
  • A good general chooses his battlefield. -- Tony Slydini
  • I'm not a good collaborator in general. -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • One bad general is worth two good ones. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Not all design is for the general good. -- Paola Antonelli
  • Balls in general are not a good looking item. -- Scott Disick
  • General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. -- William Blake
  • A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses. -- Woody Hayes
  • I think, charitable foundations are, in general, a good thing. -- Jill Stein
  • I know he's a good general, but is he lucky? -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea! -- Mallory Ortberg
  • I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good. -- Claire Bloom
  • I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good -- Claire Bloom
  • Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it. -- Horace
  • What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.! -- Al Capp
  • The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. -- Sun Tzu
  • General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years. -- Harlow Curtice
  • What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors. -- Barack Obama
  • Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general. -- Bob Schaffer
  • Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. -- Aristotle
  • I'm a football fan in general. I'm always pulling for a good game. -- Holly Robinson Peete
  • I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh. -- Dan Fogler
  • My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. -- Adam Weishaupt
  • I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me. -- Michael Dukakis
  • In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists. -- Francis Fukuyama
  • There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. -- Anthony S. Fauci
  • I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. -- Sophocles
  • Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed. -- Jim Talent
  • The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. -- William Godwin
  • Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering? -- Arnold Wesker
  • There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. -- Anthony S. Fauci
  • A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem. -- James Marcus Bach
  • Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. -- Socrates
  • Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. -- Sun Tzu
  • A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. -- Polybius
  • Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general. -- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
  • A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. -- Gerhard Richter
  • Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular. -- Oscar Fernandes
  • It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work. -- Heather Matarazzo
  • Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs. -- Charles E. Wilson
  • A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. -- Douglas MacArthur
  • I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time. -- Kenneth H. Cooper
  • It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election. -- Alan Wilson
  • I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune. -- Edie Falco
  • All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art." -- Roman Payne
  • Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine. -- Voltaire
  • As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. -- Josh Billings
  • In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you. -- Seth Godin
  • All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. -- David Ives
  • One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ... -- Marthe Bibesco
  • In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry. -- Ben Goldacre
  • Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
  • Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa. -- Becky G
  • A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. -- Samuel Johnson
  • As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good. -- Butterfly Boucher
  • A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks. -- Sharon Stone
  • In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans. -- Martin Yan
  • In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance -- Mao Tse-tung
  • In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. -- Mao Zedong
  • The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws. -- Henry Van Dyke
  • Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering. -- Kelly Ayotte
  • When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film. -- Philippe Petit
  • I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can. -- Avicii
  • What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge. -- Sun Tzu
  • Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies. -- John C. Reilly
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  • In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
  • A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God. -- Francois Fenelon
  • 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. -- Jimmy Carter
  • Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing mine is HUGE! -- Zach Braff
  • I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all. -- Keith Richards
  • A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public. -- Nicolas Chamfort
  • The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success. -- Edmund Burke
  • A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps. -- Jill Abramson
  • In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery. -- Karen Joy Fowler
  • Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about. -- Louis Kronenberger
  • PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. -- Diane Wakoski
  • I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee. -- James Longstreet
  • Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served. -- Vaclav Havel
  • A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. -- Nicolas Chamfort
  • In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest -- George Washington
  • A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow. -- Steve Lacy
  • When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me. -- Melanie Laurent
  • Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me. -- Lee Atwater
  • I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or "How are you?" -- Jaime King
  • He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. -- Olympia Brown
  • A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment. -- Walter Scott
  • There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. -- Joseph Addison
  • I don't want to call it audacity, it's too good a term, to appoint Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general should damn well be respectful of John Lewis. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
  • High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school. -- Jodi Sweetin
  • If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. -- William Glasser
  • Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. -- Samuel Chase
  • It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general. -- W. Kamau Bell
  • 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
  • Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest. -- King Felipe VI
  • What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon ... The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
  • Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good -- Ralph B. Perry
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