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• We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.

  Tom Jaine

  Mean, Past, Self

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• All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.

  Roger Scruton

  Fighting, Destiny, Law

  "Rivers of Blood". BBC Documentary, March 08, 2008.

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• Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.

  Karl Rove

  Agency, July, Wmd

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• Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.

  Jennifer Beals

  People, Culture, Television

  "The Chicago Code: Interview With Jennifer Beals". Interview with Lynn DeVries, tvdramawatch.com. February 04, 2011.

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• You cannot hide your true self forever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Self, Forever, True Self

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1403, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Thinking, Race, Color

  "Breaking the Cycle". Cairo Times Interview, October 23, 2003.

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• Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, War, Mean

  "George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bob Balaban, John Goodman and Producer Grant Heslov Talk the Monuments Men". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Differences, Demand, Recognition

  "Sprachanalyse und Soziologie". Book by Rolf Wiggershaus, 1972.

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• To know another's heart, you must first know your own.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Firsts, Knows

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.213, Penguin

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• A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

  Aga Khan IV

  Community, Depth, Tradition

  Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, www.akdn.org. May 19, 2004.

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• With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.

  Mark Rothko

  Order, Association, Our Society

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.59, Yale University Press

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• I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.

  Mark Rothko

  Men, Light, Color

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• There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

  Amartya Sen

  Ideas, Kind, Closing

  "Think a West Tolerant Intolerance Against Muslims Is Wrong and Dangerous". Interview with Mario Baudino, La Stampa, January 30, 2003.

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• Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Sex, People, Expectations

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.321, Random House

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• I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Moving, Party, School

  Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Being Yourself, Fate, Punishment

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• To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

  Dana Gioia

  Speak, Particular, Place And Time

  "My California: Journeys by Great Writers". Book edited by Donna Wares, 1999.

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• Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?

  Chris Abani

  Hate, Past, People

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• Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.

  David Richo

  Thinking, Discovery, Self

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• One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.

  William A. Henry III

  Pride, Self, People

  William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.106, Anchor

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• Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

  Ilana Mercer

  Rights, Groups, Salt

  "Uber Alec, barking-mad Bashir, death-defying libertarians". www.wnd.com. November 29, 2013.

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• Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

  Ken Wilber

  Meditation, Soul, Excellence

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Eye, Writing, Space

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• All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Class, Knowing

  Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer (1997). “Pure war”, Semiotext

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• We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

  Mark Kingwell

  Thinking, Facts, Peculiar

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield

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