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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 fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
James Longstreet

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
James Longstreet

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
James Longstreet

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
Theophrastus

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

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 are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Tom Felton

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.
Tom Felton

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

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

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Sophocles

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
George Mason

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
Michael Pollan

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
Brian Greene

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
Ernest Thompson Seton

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Al Sharpton

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Maynard James Keenan

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