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Eric Hoffer
: We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.
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Georg Hegel :
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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William Blake :
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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
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Howard Nemerov :
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Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
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Ezra Pound :
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Thomas B Macaulay :
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson :
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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