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• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  Edgar R. Fiedler
• The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

  David Hilbert
• "Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!" bellowed Helve. "I do not like special cases! special cases do not make good soldiers! special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!" "I think so-" "Shut up! That was not a question!"

  Garth Nix
• Reconstruction is merely a special case of economic progress. If we are to understand its problems thoroughly, we must examine what is meant by economic progress and try to discover how it comes about... Economic progress is not altogether easy to define and is even more difficult to measure. Nevertheless, the phrase clearly corresponds to a meaningful idea. We have only to contrast a savage society with our own. In a savage society, the same customs, the same techniques, the same ways of doing everything, from ploughing to praying, are maintained generation after generation, son following exactly in the footsteps of his father and daughter in the footsteps of her mother, without deviating an inch from the well-trodden way. In modern civilized society, on the other hand, there is constant change and flux; we are constantly improving on the methods of our ancestors, and indeed one of the surest ways to discredit anything is to call it "old-fashioned!"

  Kenneth Boulding
• The first important example solved by Descartes in his geometry is the "problem of Pappus"... Of this celebrated problem the Greeks solved only the special case... By Descartes it was solved completely, and it afforded an excellent example of the use which can be made of his analytical method in the study of loci. Another solution was given later by Newton in the .

  René Descartes

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