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Letter "C" » classifications
«The higher the classification [of secrecy], the quicker you will report it.»
Author: George P. Shultz
(Secretary)
| Keywords:
classification, classifications, report, report it, secrecy
«By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.»
Author: S. I. Hayakawa
| Keywords:
classification, classifications, convenience, conveniences, desired, for the time being, generally accepted, in short, in the United States, justifiable, Negro, regards, small white, suits, systems
«Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!»
Author: W.J. Reichmann
| Keywords:
categories, classification, classifications, classified, exceptions, labelled, lending, neatly, outrageous, pretensions, propensity, remarkable
«HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantage, classification, classifications, excusable, fell, felonious, homicide, homicides, justifiable, kinds, lawyers, praiseworthy, slain, slaying
«We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Potential
| Keywords:
beneath, classification, classifications, perish, potentialities, potentiality, recur, recurring, Sex and, superficial
«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.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
classification, classifications, code, legislation
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