Identity Quotes - Page 34

• Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Giving, Individuality

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

  Camille Paglia

  Doors, Next, Clients

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• There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.

  Martin Jacques

  Numbers, Groups, Culture

  "Identity runs deep in China" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Real, Use, Application

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• When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Teenager, Pride, People

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• I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Daughter, Sisterhood, Encounters

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For every teenager there are issues that make finding it hard. These girls are totally unique and totally like every teenager everywhere - in the world. They illuminate, beautifully, the universal search for identity that we all have. I hope that people come away from the film with a better understanding of themselves, and compassion for others.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Girl, Teenager, Unique

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

  Hyder Akbar

  Country, Land, Claims

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• All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

  Umberto Eco

  Loss, People, Fake

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they share with their parents. It is not to say that the intimacy is lost, but that it needs to change as children forge an autonomous identity and make their way into the adult world.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Ideas, America, People

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview wih Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Government, People, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Europe, Sound, Roles

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.

  Bassam Tibi

  People, Germany, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels like a natural moment for painting to look out, to reclaim that directive of picturing America.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Photography, America, Inward

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Cutting, Dimensions

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.25, Penguin

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• I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

  Frank Herbert

  Roots, Giving, Foundation

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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• Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Prayer, True Identity, Focus

  Priscilla Shirer (2015). “Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer”, p.57, B&H Publishing Group

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• As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Two, People

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

  Oliver Sacks

  Past, People, Amber

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• It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Children, Leader, Important

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• Without style, there can be no identity.

  John Kinsella

  Style

  John Kinsella (1997). “Genre”, Fremantle Arts Center Press

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• It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.

  Arthur Kemp

  Opposites, Diversity, Goal

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• God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?

  C. J. Anderson

  World, Invisibility, Cloaks

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• It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

  Mili Avital

  Years, Israeli

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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