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Generalities don't count and won't help you in football. -- Knute Rockne
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. -- Aldous Huxley
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? -- Howard Nemerov
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. -- Paul Lynde
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. -- Howard Nemerov
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. -- E. T. Bell
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities. -- Jim Henson
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless. -- Zubin Mehta
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. -- Oscar Wilde
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary... -- Alberto Manguel
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. -- Hermann Weyl
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck -- Claude C. Hopkins
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. -- Rufus Choate
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. -- Benjamin Cardozo
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it. -- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others. -- William Hazlitt
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. -- Aldous Huxley
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities. -- Bernie Sanders
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art. -- Francis Bacon
An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting. -- Richard Lewontin
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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