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* "Our foreign policy has always helped other countries, except of course when it is against our National Interest..." ''(The false implication is that our foreign policy always helps other countries)''.

* "All Americans are useless at foreign languages. Ok, I'll make an exception for those who live in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods, 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 which are not black. (This is also a [[Tautology (logicrhetoric)|tautology]], or rather a [[tautology (logic)#Tautologies versus validities in first-order logic|validity]].)

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