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• The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mother, Father, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I mean, we've always had gold bugs, but now we sort of realize that Treasure Bills might be in the same category. And we have derivatives like credit default swaps which are in this category, and we have derivatives like volatilities that are actually an asset class that we can invest in which are now - would out perform if we have another financial crisis.

  Robert F. Engle

  Mean, Class, Gold

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The only thing I could think of - because I really don't like categories - but the only thing I could think of is inspirational, and I think music that is from the heart falls right into that category.

  Prince

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  "Musician Prince Dies at Age 57". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 21, 2016.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

  Derek Webb

  Stories, Single Word, Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Derek Webb from Sep 06, 2011

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• I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

  Andres Serrano

  People, Groups, Able

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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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• Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individuality, Special, Eating Disorder

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• Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  Michel Foucault

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Father, Son, Men

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• In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

  Epictetus

  Jobs, Two, Choices

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• Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not even want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Thinking, Always Trying

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Happiness, Luxury, Justice

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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

  Oliver Stone

  Independence, Mind, Spirit

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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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• 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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