"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

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“When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.”
“When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.”

Source : "Tony Yayo says g-Unit isn't accepting game's apology" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 16, 2009.
“I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.”
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”

Source : "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.
“RenÃ© of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.”
“Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.”

Source : Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”
“Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”
“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

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