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Arthur Schopenhauer
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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 myster
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Said to Eduard Grisenbach, nearing his death
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/arthursc.htm
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Robert Terwilliger
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Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them.
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George Stanley McGovern
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The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
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Elizabeth Stone
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The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
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Michael Lews
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There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.
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Walt Whitman
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Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
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Melvin Maddocks
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A man's work is his dilemma his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.
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Unknown
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Humanity's survival does not depend on reducing differences to a common identity, but on learning to live creatively with differences.
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Lester Bowles Pearson
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We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)
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Carl Schurz
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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Johann von Goethe
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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all
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George Steiner
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Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.
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Fawn M. Brodie
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Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.
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Eric Hoffer
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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
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Janina Atkins
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I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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Hence the soul is nothing intrinsically real, nor is the body either; each of them exists in time only in and through the other. The only element of an individual thing that is intrinsically real is the identity of soul and body..
Furthermore, the soul
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James Arthur Baldwin
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Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.
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Philip K. Dick
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There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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"Woman's intuition." - Mulder on Scully's hunch of a killer's identity
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"D'oh!" said Pooh, with an identity crisis.
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"Now everyone can see my true identity: I'm Kilroy!" <Styx>
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"Doh!" said POOH, with an identity crisis.
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"Now everyone can see my true identity! I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!"
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