#generalize

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. ↗

— Margot Asquith

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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

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We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film. ↗

— James Stockdale

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. ↗

— Nelson Algren

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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. ↗

— Bob Black

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To generalize is to be an idiot. ↗

— William Blake

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So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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