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I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general. -- Serena Williams
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. -- Daniel Pipes
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. -- Andrew Mellon
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. -- Voltaire
I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. -- Joan Chen
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. -- Sydney Smith
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. -- Jane Austen
General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation. -- Chief Joseph
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. -- Lord Chesterfield
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. -- Robert Hall
Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general. -- Nobuo Uematsu
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. -- Edmund Burke
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. -- Emile Durkheim
And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works. -- Roy Barnes
I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try. -- Rita Mae Brown
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. -- Chauncey Wright
I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give. -- Malala Yousafzai
It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it. -- Nell Newman
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be. -- David Byrne
Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality. -- Baz Luhrmann
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. -- John Bardeen
I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general. -- Paul Bettany

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