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“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!”

Men May Choices Objects Theory Keys Advantage Piano Fancy Convince Atoms Shattered Overlooked Frenzy Classification Caprice Piano Keys Notes From The Underground

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”

Wells Materials Requirements Email Classification

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.”

Doe Reality Clear Cutting Conclusion Abstract Distinction Diverse Sweeping Classification

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It's tough to know who's better in cliff diving. Like, you see a guy diving off a cliff and you go, Oh, man, a guy diving off a cliff! And then another guy'd dive- Oh, there's another guy diving off a cliff there. But you can't tell who's better, y'know? Like, uh- if you survive at all, hey, you're a great- you're a great cliff diver there. There's only two classifications in cliffdiving. There's, uh- 'Grand Champion' and then, uh- 'Stuff On a Rock.' Very hard to make a comeback in that sport, I'll tell you that.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Hard Guy Stuff Sports Rocks Like You Tough Hey Champion Cliffs Comeback Other Guys Diving Classification Hey You

Author:Norm MacDonald

“The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.”

Use Race Finals Clock Kitchen Characteristics Categories Traits Tribes Rivals Convenience Convenient Classification

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others.”

Should Order Natural Effort Elements Compare Chemistry Artificial Succession Classification Natural Order

Author:Andre-Marie Ampere

“In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps them simplify the apparent complexities of the world so they can ignore the meaningless differences and draw connections between the things that really seem to matter. Third, based on the classification system, they propose a theory. The theory is a statement of what causes what and why, and under what circumstances.”

“Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.”

Theory Come Up Schemes Exclusive Paradigm Classification

Author:Clayton Christensen

“I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.”

“Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.”

Knows Sides Identity Objects Materials Species Distinction Categories Definite Stereotype Statues Classification

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.”

People Ifs Situation Security Republican Office Percent Add Including Absurd Reviews Classification

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.”

People Trying Persons Individual Type Racism Fallen Classification

Author:Mike Vallely

“There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since these other genres have been influencing Broadway more and more in recent decades.”

Thinking Has Beens Influence Musical Decades Theatre Superiors Genre Broadway Naive Classification Musical Theatre

Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo

“Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.”

“Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories.”

People Needs Different Political Social Plans Confusion Categories Classification Terminology

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.”

Made Reason Government Happens Asks Talking Information Email Classification

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.”

Knows Long States Reason Facts Government Enemy Technology Study Records Written Revolution Citizens Protect Internals Documents Classification

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that.”

Want Should Secret Fighter Planes Characteristics Classification

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.”

People Different Political Used Games Social Party Democracy Plans Violent Traditional Used To Be Revolutionary Als Categories Egyptian Classification Non Violent Political Games

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“There are a few instances that arise in the unique context of domestic equal-protection challenges to governmental actions that are facially neutral but produce substantial discriminatory impacts on groups of people, based on such suspect classifications as race, nationality, ethnic origin, etc. This doctrine has never been used in foreign affairs.”

People Action Used Challenges Race Groups Produce Equal Unique Impact Affair Protection Arise Doctrine Instance Etc Suspects Nationality Classification Foreign Affairs Equal Protection

Author:David B. Rivkin

“We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and categorizations, and exclusions, and so forth. So neurotypical is the word that we now have to use for what I call normal behavior. Neurotypical behaviors are those kinds of behaviors within the range of usual human conduct that do not rise to the level of a disorder.”

Humans Kind Use Levels Behavior Normal Range Disorder Usual Exclusion Classification Categorization

Author:Darold Treffert

“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.”

Language Forget Speech Code Legislation Classification

Author:Roland Barthes

“To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.”

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Author:Boyd Rice

“In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.”

Ends Reason Worry Information Source No Reason Bureaucrats Classification Open Source Jeopardize Classified Information

Author:Curt Weldon

“One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.”

Sometimes Taken Theory Fit Devil Madness Fancy Consideration Classification Omission Caprice Volition Wild One

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.”

Knows Men Wells Looks Kind Has Beens Use Hands Certain Evil Sin Worst Taught Brother Training Murder Rewards Killing Soldier Checks Destroyed Violation Your Brother Classification Evil Things

Author:John Steinbeck

“Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware at the time. To inhabit your own contentment is to be wholly present, with no orbiting satellite to take clinical readings of the state of the planet. Conventionally, you grow conscious of happiness at the very point that it begins to elude you. When not misused to talk yourself into something - when not a lie - the h-word is a classification applied in retrospect. It is a bracketing assessment, a label only decisively pasted onto an era once it is over.”

States Lying Reading Grows Conditions Planets Conscious Labels Eras Contentment Assessment Retrospect Satellites Classification Elude Clinicals Misused Elude You

Author:Lionel Shriver

“That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”

“The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid, where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky. That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.”

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.”

Years Important Matter Stuff Break Materials Details Streams Unconscious Threatened Integration Pursued Memories Dreams Reflections Classification Time Of My Life Enigmatic Numinous

Author:Carl Jung

“And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.”

Wells Use Hands Murder Soldier Eden Classification

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.”

Source: A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia

“Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.”

“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”

Science Experience Systematic Classification

Book:The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind

Source: The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind

“The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein one star differed from another, and which was great and which was not. And still the morning stars sang together.”

Persons Stills Together Stars Morning Nice Judgment Singing Ears Astronomy Length Delicate Classification

Book:Little Stories

Source: Little Stories

“Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.”

Humans Kind Persons Death Differences Four Advantage Died Suicide Lawyer Classification Homicide Praiseworthy Slaying

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?”

Men Has Beens Made Ends Facts Past Science Universe History Development Tasks Accounts Missions Cease Phenomenon Phases Examination Past Life Classification

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.”

Ideas Facts Circumstances Conception Arrangements Classification

Book:How to Be a Genius Or the Science of Being Great

Source: How to Be a Genius Or the Science of Being Great

“The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.”

Source: The Specificity of Serological Reactions

“Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.”

Ifs Should Made Science Names Knowledge Foundation Species Classification Nomenclature Botany

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”

Mind May Facts Feelings Science Habit Judgment Accounts Function Recognition Characteristics Significance Relative Sequence Classification Frame Of Mind Personal Feelings

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.”

Source: The Grammar of Science

“Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.”

Mind Light Science Night Products Cold Accounts Western Intellect Defeated Classification

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.”

“Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.”

Feelings Body Science Three Grows Nature Natural Animal Plant Kingdoms Divided Vegetables Minerals Classification Animal Kingdom

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They want it. Give it to them. Don't hide it and tell lies and make stories. They're not stupid....It's their information. It doesn't belong to the Army or the Department of Defence. If it's classified, take the classification off and give it to them!”

People Ifs World Want Giving Country Stories Happens Young Lying Military Stupid Information Evidence Army Department Crash Defence Ufo Classification Not Stupid

Author:Philip J. Corso

“In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.”

Ifs Thinking Important Together Science Stars Differences Opinion Importance Property Fishes Separation Trials Neglect Advancement Whales Classification Stellar Zoologist Classifying

Author:Ejnar Hertzsprung

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