Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or general:
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)
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