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• I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

  Tim Robbins

  Blue, Blood, Criminals

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• Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Starbucks, Brands, Guardrails

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• How nice of Acheron to send us a playmate. (Daimon) Play is for children and dogs. Now that you have identified which category you fall into, I'll show you what Romans do to rabid dogs. (Valerius)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Children, Nice

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize the Night”, p.20, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• A 'very good friend' is a dangerous category with Indian girls. From here you can either make fast progress or if you play it wrong, you can go down to the lowest category invented by the Indian women ever - rakhi brother. Rakhi brother really means 'you can talk to me, but don't even freaking think about anything else you bore'.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Girl, Brother, Mean

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• Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

  Judith Butler

  Names, Recognition, Social

  Judith Butler (1997). “The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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• With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

  Steve Martin

  Three, Delicacy, Obsession

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• There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Men, Sweat, Two

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• Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Blessed, Reality, Matter

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.66, Рипол Классик

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• Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Children, Mean, Doors

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.277, A&C Black

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• The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.

  Aldous Huxley

  Distance, Eye, Order

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Gaza Strip, Fit

  Noam Chomsky, Ilan PappŽ (2014). “Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians”, p.101, Haymarket Books

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• I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Proud, Fit

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• What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.

  Richelle Mead

  Stupid, People, Evil

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.453, Zebra Books

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• We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Special, Purpose

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• A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Teacher, Men, Gentleman

  Jane Feather, Sabrina Jeffries, Julia London (2008). “Snowy Night with a Stranger”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Years, Two, Forgiving

  Jonathan Carroll (2006). “Glass Soup”, p.58, Macmillan

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• You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes." - Jennifer, "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Running, Queens, Pain

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• That’s how you tell what a man’s really made of. It’s one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin’ after a woman when she’s shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Shopping, Giving

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.136, Macmillan

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• According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

  Alain de Botton

  Fate, Thinking, Secular Society

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• It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

  Stephen Hawking

  Shapes, Four, Structure

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• That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything. A piece of jewelry made by hand: something. A dollar: anything. A sand dollar: something. A gift certificate: anything. An IOU for two hours of starwatching: something. A drunk kiss at a party: anything. A sober kiss alone in a park: something.

  David Levithan

  Party, Kissing, Hands

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• There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Two, Different

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• Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

  Marie Lu

  June, People, Reason

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin

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• I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

  Louis L'Amour

  Thinking, People, Age

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.504, Bantam

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• Is there anyone’s life story you don’t want to know?” “Not really.” His expression was unexpectedly serious. “Because people make a story of their lives. Gains, losses, tragedy and triumph—you can tell a lot about someone simply by what they put into each category. You can learn a lot about what you put into each category by your reaction to them. They teach you about yourself without ever intending to do it—and they teach you a lot about life.

  Michelle Sagara

  Loss, Expression, People

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