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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney
Truth
People
Will
Believe
Only
Facts
Generally
Accept
Agree
Relatable
I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
Beth Ditto
Great
Me
Karma
Enough
Great Believer
Those
Deliberately
Generally
Vengeance
Up
Mean
Who
Believer
Serve
Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.
Fabrizio Moreira
Service
Business
Problem
Money
Worth
Amazing
Every
About
Delivered
Generally
Get
Wants
Customer
Customer Service
Product
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
Hunter S. Thompson
Field
Mediocrity
Vital
Potentially
Shame
Stuck
Generally
Journalism
Concerned
Overrun
Bums
As Far As
Dynamic
Stagnant
Apathy
Far
Should
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
Unless
Temptation
Generally
Avoid
Resist
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Aristotle
Good
Character
Impossible
Men
Whatever
Believe
Think
Others
Good Men
Exact
More
Divided
Absolutely
Generally
True
Spoken
Make
Him
Readily
Opinions
Question
Than
Personal
Achieved
Where
Us
Persuasion
Speaker
Certainty
Fully
Credible
Speech
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton
Man
Quality
Fear
No Fear
Men
Seen
Definition
More
Take
Generally
Never
Knows
Accepted
Intelligent
Frightened
Brave
Brave Man
Bravery
Which
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Day
People
Mind
Tyranny
Will
Evil
Vanish
Spirits
Generally
Dawn
Like
Body
Enlighten
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Win
Soldiers
Battles
Generally
Generals
Get
Them
Credit
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander Hamilton
God
People
Judge
Changing
Has-Been
Determine
Voice
Fact
Seldom
Generally
True
Said
However
Been
Maxim
Quoted
Turbulent
Believed
Right
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
James Madison
Will
Power
Generally
Wrong
Done
Wherever
Interest
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Life
Man
Life Is A
Dare
Willing
Take
Take A Chance
Generally
Goes
Who
Farthest
Chance
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love
Bible
People
Enemies
Our
Neighbors
Tells
Generally
Also
Because
Same
To Love
Us
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
Abraham Lincoln
People
Money
Settle
Harmoniously
Appropriate
Generally
Concert
Got
Quarrel
Themselves
Act
Capitalists
Now
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
Saul Alinsky
Truth
Truth Is
People
Opportunity
Power
Own
Control
Conviction
Destinies
Only
Generally
Freely
Reach
Fixed
Decisions
Act
Belief
Right
Right Decisions
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers
Truth
Hurts
Proportion
Remark
Generally
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin
Good
People
Sometimes
Victory
Will
Those
Would
Would-Be
More
Generally
Never
Affairs
Get
Unfortunate
Which
Them
Use
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
Charles Bukowski
Love
Torture
Betrayal
Generally
Feels
Female
His
Male
Bravado
Skilled
Exploration
Loyal
Who
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
People
Liberty
Long
Corrupt
Generally
Exist
Cannot
Among
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
Nature
Spiritual
Destroyed
Civilization
Poetry
Generally
Gross
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill
Time
Courage
Genius
Few
Society
Danger
Marks
Dare
Moral
Moral Courage
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Mental
Proportional
Generally
Contained
Been
Chief
Vigor
Now
Amount
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Samuel Adams
Nature
Men
Power
More
Take
Generally
Share
Make
Vested
Than
Intended
Human
Should
Who
Inclined
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore
Future
You
Change
Experience
Before
Assuming
Everyday
Our
Those
Unprecedented
Something
Exceptions
Generally
Never
Safe
Vulnerable
Climate
Climate Change
Improbable
Going
Human
Human Beings
Happen
Happened
Confusing
Beings
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Lewis Carroll
Good
Advice
Gave
Herself
Though
Followed
Seldom
Generally
She
Very
Good Advice
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
Fools
First
Innovators
Dread
Madmen
About
Vast
Vast Majority
Generally
First Appearance
Majority
Always
Been
Persecuted
Familiar
Human
Human Beings
Which
Dislike
Notions
Beings
Appearance
Even
Hence
Actually
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell
Power
Others
Pleasure
Consists
Ourselves
More
Preventing
Generally
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Themselves
Acquisition
Next
Enjoying
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