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- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar… — John Keats
- For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. — George Ade
- Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant
- We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. — Edmund Burke
- Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley
- ...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos
- The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and… — Thomas Sydenham