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One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.

Why would anyone think the FBI had done something crooked or criminal?

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

Done because we are too many.

One that always stings is "Grow up." And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times.

The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or everything has been to expand it, instead of backtracking or trying to destroy what we have done.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.