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• Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all… — Roland Barthes
• Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben
• Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no… — Clyde Kluckhohn
• It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according… — Franz Boas
• If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications. — Buddy Rich
• Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H.G. Wells
• The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which… — David Lack
• Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp… — Stephen Jay Gould
• All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
• I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor… — Jeffrey Jones

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