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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
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy. -- Aldous Huxley
Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support. -- Steven Sinofsky
I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. -- Bob Black
People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood. -- Michael Keaton
I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond. -- Leonard Lauder
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. -- Robert Anton Wilson
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children. -- Patricia Hill Collins
Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs. -- Aditi Shankardass
I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster. -- Siri Hustvedt
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
Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature. -- Jean-Marie Lehn
All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good. -- John Rawls
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. -- Susan Sontag
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it. -- George Will
Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting reformers. -- George Packer
I just want to express a generalized and endless feeling of love inside of me directed at every single person who exists or will ever exist. -- Steve Roggenbuck
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. -- W. H. Auden
There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words. -- Thomas Friedman
As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time. -- Robert Heller
The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this. -- Rand Paul
Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity. -- Michael Hersch
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

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