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• I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Atheist, White

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.

  Immortal Technique

  Race, Hip Hop, Historical

  "The Transcendence of Hip Hop - An Interview with Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.

  Benjamin Carson

  Flames, People, Understanding

  "Ben Carson calls for unity as Charleston community recovers from tragedy". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2015.

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• The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Might, Facts, Married

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

  John Shirley

  Mean, Artist, People

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• In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.

  Peter Rollins

  Letting Go, Sublime, World

  Peter Rollins (2013). “The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

  Gloria Steinem

  Enemy, Labels, Links

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• They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Evil, Optimism

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• Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Loneliness, Heart, Dimensions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.

  Muriel Spark

  Lying, Two, People

  Muriel Spark (2014). “The Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays”, p.31, Carcanet

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• Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

  Rebecca West

  War, Hands, Psychology

  Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”

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• The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

  Freya Stark

  Impact, Order, Two

  freya stark (1969). “the zodiac arch”

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• it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.

  Mary McCarthy

  Stupid, Lunch, People

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.

  Kate Clinton

  Laughter, Thinking, Possibility Of Change

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• The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

  Hannah Arendt

  Truth, Real, Lying

  "Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism", www.openculture.com. January 24, 2017.

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• the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

  Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.203, Schocken

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• I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let's not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He's royalty.

  Deion Sanders

  Thinking, Nfl, Montana

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• I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, People, Autism

  "My Interview with Temple Grandin About Autism". Interview with Connie, parentcoachingforautism.com. September 27, 2013.

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• while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Men, Class

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.

  Alfre Woodard

  Character, Thinking, Doctors

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• the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.

  Carter Heyward

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mistake, Book, Learning

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.

  Michelle Shocked

  Differences, Knowing, Fit

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• When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

  Carol Tavris

  Food, Two, Worry

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• I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Writing, Advice, Trying

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