Bruce Dickinson
Musician, Author, Pilot
"There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit."
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Steve McQueen
Actor
"People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me."
Johannes Kepler
Astronomer, Mathematician
"[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories."
Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?"
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"Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories."
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"It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense."
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"Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it"
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"You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category."
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"Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?"
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"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important."
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"Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no."
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