General Population Prefer

Famous quotes containing the words general, population and/or prefer:

    “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population of five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, “if you must shoot, shoot straight up!””
    —State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “I believe it was a good job,
    Despite this possible horror: that they might prefer the
    Preservation of their law in all its sick dignity and their knives
    To the continuation of their creed
    And their lives.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)