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Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult. -- Richard Leakey
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet. -- Walter Martin
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me. -- Sylvester Stallone
There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics. -- Piers Morgan
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. -- Jonah Goldberg
Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world. -- Melissa Leo
The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and '80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do. -- Michael Bloomberg
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. -- Tom Hiddleston
When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous. -- Donald Trump
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. -- Theodore Sturgeon
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong. -- Jamaica Kincaid
The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself. -- Nat Hentoff
Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things. -- Ali Banisadr
I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard. -- Karin Tidbeck

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