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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Ferdinand Foch

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
Bernard Law Montgomery

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Alan Turing

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
Alanis Morissette

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace

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

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
Brian Eno

JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.
Catherine Bell

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
Rudolf Arnheim

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
Buffalo Bill

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
Tim Berners-Lee

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.
Carrot Top

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
William Hazlitt

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
Adam Weishaupt

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead

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

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Novalis

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