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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. -- Alexander Herzen
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
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit. -- Alanis Morissette
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. -- Ezra Stiles
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. -- Edward Sapir
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. -- Steven Seagal
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. -- Oscar Wilde
In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist. -- A. S. Byatt
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit. -- Peter Ackroyd
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. -- Jude Law
I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful. -- Clayton Christensen
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian. -- Charles Spurgeon
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. -- Luigi Pirandello
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. -- David Lee Roth
A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. -- Sun Tzu
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
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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