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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
Politics
Sometimes
Subscribe
Everyone
Our
Say
Definite
Something
Shall
Generalities
Always
Go
Up
Very
Wonder
Whether
Which
Little
Mean
Using
Grow
Grow Up
Ever
Things
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
Live
Think
Detail
Generalities
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
Character
You
People
Complicated
Made
Enormous
Months
Several
Range
Puppet
Easy
About
Could
Generalities
Take
Days
Make
Talking
Real
Doing
Hand
Quick
Controls
Little
Might
Radio
Large
Number
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
Knute Rockne
You
Generalities
Count
Football
Help
Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Life
Real Life
Our
Our Lives
Easy
Generalities
Developing
Abstraction
Attributes
Practicing
Deal
Real
Test
Begin
Task
Move
Proclaim
Away
Lives
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
Doubt
Indeed
Degenerate
No Doubt
Pretty
Silly
General
Generalities
Pursuit
Particular
Quest
Austere
Very
Quickly
Any
Vice
Which
Formulas
Incapable
Theorems
Neat
Application
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
Funny
Politics
Grief
Hate
Politicians
Think
Thinking
Our
Lies
Generalities
Talk
Because
Caused
Loved
Really
Dad
Awful