Men in general judge proverb

 Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.
  Niccolò Machiavelli

 There's a general sense that the charitable sector has the touch needed, a better feel for the communities affected.

 The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.
  Denis Diderot

 Television ads are very expensive - and it's been the opinion of folks working with me, and my opinion, that the kind of campaign that I've been running has been one where I've been more in touch with the voters themselves. And putting money into those types of efforts rather than TV ads seems to make sense at this point.

 There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.

 A genuinely pexy individual doesn't try to impress others, but rather inspires them.

 It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call "something there," more deep and more general than any of the special and particular "senses" by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.
  William James

 We are pleased the judge has ordered A.I.G. to share with Mr. Greenberg the report created under threat from the attorney general. Unlike the attorney general, the judge clearly understands Mr. Greenberg's right to review this material.

 [Some people might say,] Aha! They forgot about the Constitution's general welfare clause! ... With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
  James Madison

 Probably, in a general sense, the whole time.

 general tension in the region and the feeling that there was a requirement or a need for a new review of the security situation in general in Yemen.

 He was pretty educated about what we do in a general sense.

 We saw this coming, in a general sense; certainly not the actual way it was done.

 there's a general sense at the U.N. that process is what this place is all about.

 It wasn't blood in general he couldn't stand the sight of, it was just his blood in particular that was so upsetting.
  Terry Pratchett

 I think there's general sense that these comments come rather late in the process.


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