General Purpose Metric

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or purpose:

    “In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can’t amount to much in his totality.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “... the word “education” has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education,
    when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)