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“I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.” quote by Ben Marcus — Download Open image

““I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.””

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...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

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I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

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I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time…

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... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

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