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Data without generalization is just gossip.
Robert M. Pirsig / Writer
Data
Generalization
Gossip
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In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.
B.s. Johnson / Novelist
Generalization
Lying
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An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
John Fowles / Novelist
Aphorism
Generalization
Modern
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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
Mark Twain / Author
Danger
Dangerous
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
Graham Greene / Writer
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Meaningless
People
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower / 34Th U.s. President
Generalization
Including
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All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
Kurt Gödel / Logician
Exception
Generalization
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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
Jack Schwartz /
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Avoid
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Repeating
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To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.
Rudolph Valentino / Actor
Women
Dangerous
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Women Bashing
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
Claude Bernard / Physiologist
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Particular
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
William James / Philosopher
Details
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
John Gunther / Journalist
American Politics
Cutting
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Selfishness
Cut
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Vested
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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 / Philosopher
Assuming
Contagious
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Good Bad More
Assume
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Prone
Potent
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / Philosopher
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Ideas
Mean
Property
Thinking
Idea
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Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
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The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.
Carrie Brownstein / Musician
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Self Conscious
Sensitive
Fairly
Northwest
Populace
Slightly
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
Sam Claflin / Film Actor
Generalization
Boys And Girls
Cleaner
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx / Philosopher
Generalization
Revolution
Revolutionary
Spirit
English
Material
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A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
Ian Hacking / Philosopher
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Inconsistent
Observation
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Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.
Frank Lampard / Soccer Player
Different
Generalization
Hard Times
Player
Time Always Know
Footballers
Hard Time
Lads
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Samuel E. Morison /
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Historian
Indulgence
Reputation
Specialization
Synthesis
Ultimate
Broad
Rigid
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So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
Elizabeth Mcgovern / Film Actor
Approach
Generalization
Show Business
Craft
Hasten
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Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
Ian Hacking / Philosopher
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Golden
Golden Rule
The Golden Rule
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
Edmund Morgan / Author
Generalization
Historians
Indeed
Showing
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Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
James G. Frazer / Mythological Figure
Abstract
Generalization
Ideas
Past
Recognition
Appearances
Formed
In The Past
Result
Whom
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
Madeleine Albright / Former United States Secretary Of State
Men
Generalization
Gross
Networking
Thinking
Women Are
Good Women Men
Holds
Necessarily
Ways
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Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.
Tucker Carlson / Commentator
Generalization
Privileged
Skin Color
Strikes
Me Negative People
Attack
Definition
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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 / Actor
Bad Things
Comparison
Feels
Generalization
Old Days
Want
Cyclical
Generalizations
Personal Experience
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Country
Encounters
Generalization
Mean
Territory
Texas
Completed
Draw
Mixed
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To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.
Keegan-Michael Key / Actor
African American
Embrace
Generalization
Gross
Mainstream
Mainstream Culture
Thinking
White
Culture People Feel
Mixed
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I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.
Brandi Carlile / Singer-Songwriter
Candidates
Country
Generalization
Issues
Our World
Rock Music
Super Bowl
Bowl
Country Music
Super
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When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.
O. T. Fagbenle /
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Representation
Scarce
Encapsulate
Stereotypes
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Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.
Susan Kelechi Watson /
Generalization
Mentality
Dreams Men Women
Even Now
Dreams Women Men
Historically
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As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth, and revise the Eurocentric and Christian tropes that Tolkien's particular worldview bequeathed.
Ross Douthat / Author
Generalization
Worldview
Escape
Revise
Tolkien
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As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.
Lily Cole / Model
Art
Generalization
Industry
People
Questioning
Status Quo
Thinking
Goes
Questioned
Quo
Status
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I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.
Seth Gabel / Actor
Teen
Challenges
Generalization
Might
Romance
Traditional
Challenging
Forced
Led
Loose
Shook
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I don't mean to make a generalization, but I do at the same time, from what I know about people from the Midwest, it seems like their families would talk about money openly in front of them when they were kids. They'd say stuff like, 'We're broke! We're gonna lose the house!'
Baron Vaughn / Comedian
Broke
Generalization
Time Money Lose
Openly
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Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it's wrong to make cops - or any group - out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.
Reginald Veljohnson /
Enemy
Generalization
Profession
Turmoil
Based
Good World Black
Certainly
Cops
Group
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This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.
Albert Brooks / Actor
Differences
Generalization
Intelligent
Threatened
Men Women Better
Men Women Enough
Women Are
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Weirder
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