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I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Categorize Extremist Good Me Nobody Respects Tactics Those Understand Views

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I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Absurd Basis Categorize Just Numbers Objects Remember Scientists Think

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I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

~Angel Haze

Topics: Anything Around Artist Box Cannot Categorize Me Put Want You

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We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

~Armin Van Buuren

Topics: Animals Because Categorize Everything Fit Labels Need Order People Put Strong Totally Understand Understandable Where

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In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

~Blake Mciver Ewing

Topics: Biology Categorize Class Community Each High High School Homosexual Label Love Male Never-Ending Organize Other School

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Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.

~Chris Wood

Topics: Any Belittle Categorize Crazy Disease Faced Get Help Illness Mental Mental Illness Oh Other Our Problem Sympathy Them Those Understanding

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I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Became Brain Categorize Categorized Chaotic Different Different Ways Disorganized Equally Graduate Graduate School How Interested Many School Seem So Many Different Ways Sometimes Structure Things Valid Ways Which Why World

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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Categories Categorize Class Dismiss Each Gender Inside Need Other Race Sexuality Which

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There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: American Categorize Chant Folk Hybrid Modern Pie Poetry Real Rock Way

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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

~Earl King

Topics: Blues Categorize Earl However Just Most People People Say Say Sing Songs Want Well You

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