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• I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Dream, Country, Peaceful

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• To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.

  George Steiner

  Poetry, Naked, Literature

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• In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Years, Purpose

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

  Scott McNealy

  Distance, Believe, Moving

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• When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

  Alain de Botton

  Long, People, Forever

  AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Perspective, Long, Who We Are

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• Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?

  Sergio Chejfec

  Stars, Mean, Light

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• Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

  John Stoltenberg

  Illusion, Lifetime, Strive

  John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.7, Routledge

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• I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

  Bre Pettis

  Kids

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• Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

  Kwame

  Culture, Made, Continuity

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• We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.

  Al Gore

  Space, Scary, Enough

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• For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the same way an animal or a tree is. Gradually, though, more and more of their identity went into the movement of thought. They identified more and more with the movement of thinking.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Animal, Thinking, Long

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Enemy, Groups, Needs

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

  Randall Wallace

  Culture, Storytelling, Activity

  "Comparing 'Heaven is for Real' with 'God’s Not Dead' + an interview with 'Heaven' writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. April 16, 2014.

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• You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fiction, World, Dramatic

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 21, 2013.

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• I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this is a job. I think it's easier to get better at it if you don't lose your identity in it. You do whatever you can to try to understand the character. Because they're paying you feel like you should be doing something.

  Ryan Gosling

  Art, Jobs, Character

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.

  Tom Ford

  Voice, Appreciate, Tough Times

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

  Nate Parker

  Motivation, Self Esteem, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.

  Nate Parker

  Who We Are, Pieces, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Black, Groups, West

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• Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

  Max Frisch

  Real, Alive, Shapes

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Believe, Hero

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• An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fall, Stranger, Gates

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