General Quotes
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It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?
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I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.
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My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.
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A general must be a charlatan.
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True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
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One bad general is worth two good ones.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books.
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The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
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Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.
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People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said it.' It's just part of what I do.
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Fashion is general. Style is individual.
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If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
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He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
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Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.
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Men, in general, are but great children.
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
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New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
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I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.
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By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no relation to physics. And that was mostly because experiments to prove it were so hard to do - all these effects that Einstein's theory had predicted were infinitesimally small.
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A message to women in general is be happy with yourself first. Be sure that you take care of yourself and find yourself. Be comfortable! And you will be way more appealing. Do what's best for you, and everything will fall into place.
