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• I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

  Anthony Braxton

  Music, Gone, Jazz

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• Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.

  Ellen Langer

  Thinking, Artist, Hands

  Ellen J. Langer (1989). “Mindfulness”, Da Capo Press

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• Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

  Karl Radek

  Independent, Class, Different

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• I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

  Jane Smiley

  Romance, Fascination, Not Friends

  Jane Smiley (2011). “Ordinary Love and Good Will”, p.164, Anchor

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• But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Fall, Artist, Two

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• Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Doctors, Sight, Blood

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• You wanna blow money? Put it in a 'blow' category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper!

  Dave Ramsey

  Blow, Paper, Budgets

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Nov 18, 2009

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• Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Type, Reduction, Enormous

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.

  Terry Pratchett

  Love, Beautiful, Special

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• Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Alcohol, Drug

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• Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time

  Jacques Ellul

  Views, Technique, Taught

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• In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Believe, Book, Responsibility

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• Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called ‘misosophy’ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Hatred, West

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1996). “Religion and the Order of Nature”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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• Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Prayer, Heart, Intelligent

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• I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

  Jeremy Brett

  Stories, Actors, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot anymore. I do it every now and then. I finished third in the British Open last year, so I know I can still do it.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Years, Play

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• To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.

  David First

  Two, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Practice, Two

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

  Marina Abramovic

  Feminist, Clear

  "Meltdown 2012 - Marina Abramovic: 'Artists can do whatever they want'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.

  A. P. Herbert

  Pain, Police, Citizens

  "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.

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• [A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity. Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous--tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Special, May

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.619, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.

  David First

  People, Trying, Sound

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.

  DJ Spooky

  Real, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.

  Florence Nightingale

  Law, Tables, Causes

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.41, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.

  Tom Hayden

  People, Campaigns, Noble

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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