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* "All Americans are useless at foreign languages. Ok, I'll make an exception for those who live in multi-ethnic neighborhoods, have parents who speak a foreign language, are naturally gifted in languages, have lived abroad or who went to a school with a good foreign language program, but the rest are absolutely useless at foreign languages."

* All dogs are black, except for those that are not black. (This is also a [[Tautology (rhetoric)|tautology]], or rather a [[tautology (logic)#Tautologies versus validities in first-order logic|validity]].)

In March 2011, [[Alan Greenspan]] said, "With notably rare exceptions (2008, for example), the global 'invisible hand' has created relatively stable exchange rates, interest rates, prices, and wage rates".{{Dubious|date=August 2011}}

See also [[faulty generalization]] for other fallacies involving [[generalization]].