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• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Heaven, Democracy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

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• People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Love, Forgiveness, Two

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• I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Running, Art, Dad

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Lying, Pillars

  1974 interview, printed in appendix to (The Oak and the Calf, 1975)

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• There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Two, Bullshit, Metals

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• I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis.

  George Carlin

  Artist, Thinking, Analysis

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• People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

  Steve McQueen

  People, Trying

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Girl, Falling In Love, Father

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 18, 2011

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• So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.

  Bruno Schulz

  Soul, Trying, Depth

  Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski (1990). “Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose”, Fromm Intl

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• It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

  John C. Baez

  Nice, Math, Nasty

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• The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Three, Judgment

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• I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Country, Teenage

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• The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly...are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated'.

  Hardin B. Jones

  Dark, Progress, Age

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• It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

  Kenneth Williams

  Storm, Hurricanes, Arthur

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• I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

  John Travolta

  Sports, Art, Thinking

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• I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.

  Michael Keaton

  Want, Hollywood, Comedy

  "Golden Globe Awards 2015: 'Boyhood,' 'Budapest' take top film prizes". www.latimes.com. January 11, 2015.

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• Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Identity, Sides, Stereotype

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Objectivity, Growth, Encounters

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, Physicians, Care

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category; the Internet is a technological infrastructure that can be deployed to facilitate a disruptive business model or a sustaining business model.

  Clayton Christensen

  Views, Internet, Infrastructure

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand.

  Clayton Christensen

  Writing, People, Way

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• When you think hotness appeal, vampires automatically fall into that category.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Fall, Thinking, Vampire

  "Josh Hutcherson Dishes on the Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 21, 2009.

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