"Classifying and judging people promotes violence." — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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• In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the… — Unknown Author
• It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language,… — Franz Boas
• Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
• To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are… — Stephen Reinhardt
• Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe. — Annie Jump Cannon
• Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which… — Paul Ricoeur
• People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember,… — Khurram Murad
• The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of… — Carl Linnaeus
• It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out… — E. O. Wilson
• Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish. — Thomas Szasz
• Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we… — Merlin Stone
• What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need… — Leo Buscaglia

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