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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.»
Author: Nelson Algren
(Novelist, Writer)
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«It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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«I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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«We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
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«Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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«The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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World
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«There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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«To generalize is to be an idiot.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
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