#generalizations

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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.


Alexandre Dumas


#even #generalizations

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.


Kerry Washington


#any #case #dangerous #generalizations #i

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.


Francis Crick


#amino #bases #biochemical #biochemistry #ever

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.


Robert Welch


#comparatively #generalizations #had #his #impact

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.


Jeffrey Jones


#bad #become #comparison #cyclical #days

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.


Trevanian


#generalizations #politics #dictatorship

Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]


R. Alan Woods


#generalizations #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them.


Christine de Pizan


#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.


John Gunther


#american politics #cannot #cut #generalizations #politics

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.


John Lukacs


#course #forever #generalizations #like #matter