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• A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Three, Used

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.119, Vintage

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• You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

  Stephen Jeffreys

  Stupid, Fall, Years

  "The Libertine". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Identity, Behavior

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.71, Penguin

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• The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.

  Steven Pinker

  Culture, May, Superstitions

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.66, Penguin

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• Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

  Seth Godin

  Competition, Permit, Yes Or No

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• Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

  Benjamin Moser

  Relief, Passionate, Sacred

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• I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Crazy, Mean

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• But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Feminist, Political

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• And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

  Claudia Cardinale

  Directors, Individualism, Bigs

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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• I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another. In the past I've had successful relationships with men, and now I'm in this successful relationship with a woman. When it comes to love I am totally open. And I don't want to be put into a category, as in "I'm this" or "I'm that."

  Amber Heard

  Successful, Past, Men

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.

  Ava Gardner

  Animal, Men, Drunk

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• If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Math, People

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• I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, People, Deny

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• History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

  Jules Romains

  History, Catastrophe, Humans

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• This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

  W. R. Thompson

  Mean, Confusion, Historical

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• Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

  Ron Suskind

  Kids, Ghetto, Drug

  Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

  Monique Wittig

  Sex, Political, Found

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fall, Kids, Artist

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• Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

  Oliver Stone

  Independence, Mind, Spirit

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• When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.

  E. M. Forster

  Race, Dust, Perfection

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• The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religion, Ingredients, Rhetoric

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1978). “The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression”, p.25, Syracuse University Press

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• Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Fall, Example, Doe

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 29, 2016

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• We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Two, Feelings

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• What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . .

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Jobs, Reality, Quality

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

  Ned Rorem

  Men, Two, Eleven

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.136, Open Road Media

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