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• The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things and life.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Men, Desire, Trying

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• My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Christ

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• For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea, but it's politically correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not determined by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity.

  Walter E. Williams

  Art, Character, Race

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• No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

  Ronnie Spector

  Back In The Day, Choreography

  "Ronnie's spectre". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Thinking, Christ, Amnesia

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• Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Mother, Identity Politics, Milk

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• The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations

  Slavoj Žižek

  Creating, Space, Goal

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• I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Artist, Matter

  Peter C. Bunnell, Emmet Gowin, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Princeton University. Art Museum (1983). “Emmet Gowin: photographs, 1966-1983 : September 17-November 13, 1983, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington”

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• The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Children, Party

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• Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can we find community with others. Community is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace, the flowing of personal identity and integrity into the world of relationships.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Self, Roots

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.92, John Wiley & Sons

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• And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

  Don Altman

  Hurt, Self, Goal

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• All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Fear, Reflection

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.120, Penguin

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• Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Healing

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.

  Justin Simien

  Race, Mass Culture, White

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• I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Oneness, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

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• If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Years, Confusion

  "The total library : non-fiction 1922-1986". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1999.

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• Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Nerves, Self Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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• Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acorns, Fullness, Oaks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

  Walker Percy

  Loss, Age, Patient

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Drama, Mind, Tragedy

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• You are, when all is done-just what you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Done

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• I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Average, Facts

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• Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Marriage, Names, Boredom

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

  Erica Jong

  Husband, Names, Wife

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 16, 2012

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• Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.

  Rajneesh

  Fire, Personality, Meditation

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