#generalize

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

— Jack Schwartz

#context #generalization #generalize #keep #repeating

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

#critic #entailed #generalized #him #impossible

To generalize is to be an idiot. ↗

— William Blake

#idiot

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

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#cases #copenhagen #generalized #history #individuality

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#across #back #board #borders #choose