Identity Quotes - Page 39

• To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

  Brian Christian

  Intelligent, Views, People

  "The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2011.

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• With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Europe, America, People

  "Electing Obama Sends Message To The World". "NPR News" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. November 05, 2008.

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• For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Writing, Thinking, Demon

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• Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, School, Test Scores

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• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

  Terence McKenna

  Caring, Self, Expression

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• The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.

  Laozi

  Mean, Perception, Spirit

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• I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

  Lauryn Hill

  Comfortable

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• A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

  Aristotle

  Hero, True Identity, Tragedy

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• That's grossing money for other people that has a multiplying factor, but the government doesn't see that. It doesn't see that making a film or culture or art is part of our economy. But the main reason is this, it's part of our identity. I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual and he's stops being an individual.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Country, Art, Memories

  Source: collider.com

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• Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.

  Rachel Maddow

  Religious, Citizens, Registration

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• The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Rights, Gay Marriage, Promise

  Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584, 192 L. Ed. 2d 609, footnote #22, June 26, 2015.

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• The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

  Anthony Storr

  Creative, Find Me, Persons

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the effect on mankind that he has had for 2000 years. We could ask, would even the greatest of liars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? ... Did he allow us the choice... to believe in his teaching but reject his statements about his own identity?

  Ronald Reagan

  Jesus, Liars, Lying

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• I thought a lot of girls wanna have their secret identity and have something they don't want to tell people about.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Secret Identity, People

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• I have no issues with my identity.

  Rashida Jones

  Issues

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• I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.

  Tobi Vail

  Girl, Growing Up, Play

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• Guns are part of the American identity.

  Henry Rollins

  Gun, American Identity

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• Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

  Henry Rollins

  Violence, Constitution, Economic

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• A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

  Doug Berry

  Accountability, Corporations, Ethical

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• Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

  Tony Robbins

  Use, Constant, Capability

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers' belief in their level of intelligence.

  Tony Robbins

  Teacher, Levels, Belief

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.
  Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,
  deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?

  Gangaji

  Suffering, Victory, Emotion

  Gangaji (2007). “You Are That”, p.96, Sounds True

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• My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Independent, Guiding Principles, Europe

  Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Political Centre (Great Britain) (1988). “CPC [publications].”

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• American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

  Noam Chomsky

  Organization, Identity Politics, League

  "What’s Left". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1996.

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• Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in reality: The goal is achieved, but the person who reaches it is not the same person who dreamed it. The goal was static, but the person's identity was dynamic.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Reality, Goal, Way

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