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• I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.

  Judith Butler

  Gay, Thinking, Important

  Source: ilga.org

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• Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

  Felix Klein

  Names, Three, May

  Felix Klein (1893). “The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 Before Members of the Congress of Mathematics Held in Connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill”

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• I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

  Viola Davis

  Winning, African American, Want

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

  Andrew Bird

  Believe, Views, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a variety of reasons. Not all Western leaders are equal. We have to make a certain separation from naïve Americans and Europeans. These are two different categories. For the Europeans, it affects the image of the "New Europe." The false image of Europe is that it is peaceful, separate from the past. Now the image of the New Europe is a radically false image.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Past, Europe, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.

  Desmond Tutu

  Book, People, Church

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• There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Men, Two, Wife

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• I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make other players look better and create their own shot. I fit in that category.

  Chauncey Billups

  Player, Looks, Fit

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• There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, People, Firsts

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• Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.

  Marcus Giles

  Baseball, Fall, Athlete

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• [Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

  H. L. Mencken

  Two, Nuisance, Facts

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• Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

  Gordon Allport

  Past, New Experiences, Events

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• The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

  Hermann Broch

  Beautiful, Essence, Confusion

  Hermann Broch (2002). “Geist and Zeitgeist: Six Essays by Hermann Broch”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

  Karsten Harries

  Successful, Kitsch, Painting

  Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

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• To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Play, Skills

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a question of what categories we want to spend more on and what categories we want feel that we are spending too much on and we want to cut down.

  Dan Ariely

  Pain, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

  Emily Gould

  Meaningful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

  Emily Gould

  Meaningful, Marketing, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.

  Al Ries

  Sacrifice, Essence, Mind

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• Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

  David Einhorn

  Disappointment, Smart, Opportunity

  "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!

  Judd Apatow

  Needs, Hours, Knows

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• The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?

  Meg Whitman

  Business, Thinking, Research And Development

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• To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

  Jillian Medoff

  Writing, Character, Fiction

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.

  Viv Richards

  Thinking, Play, Perfect

  "45 quotes on Sachin Tendulkar in honour of the Master Blaster’s 44th birthday". yourstory.com. April 24, 2017.

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