Quotes of: General-sense Keyword

[history is written by the winners. And if the Nazis had won, future generations would understand the story of World War ll quite differently]

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Edward R. Murrow: What'd the general have to say? Fred Friendly: It was a colonel. Two of them. Edward R. Murrow: That makes a general.

Good Night, and Good Luck.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science an...

Robert Trout

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesig...

Erik Brynjolfsson

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Thich Nhat Hanh

We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep. But, generation after generation, They throw up leaders who disturb our sleep.

Love

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

Walter Isaacson

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

Yuri Milner

First do no harm. -Hippocrates Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

The Common Sense Guide to Dementia for Clinicians and Caregivers

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Call for the Dead

Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.

Conceptualizing and measuring human anxiety on the Internet

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Discourse on Method

I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.

Dragonforge

common sense is embedded in common things

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

The Genius And The Goddess

Sorry, he said penitently. It’s a book. I have no common sense around them.

The Bell at Sealey Head

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

The Big Story: How the Bible Makes Sense out of Life

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language