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"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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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." »Robert Terwilliger
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"The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity." »George Stanley McGovern
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"The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity." »Elizabeth Stone
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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." »Melvin Maddocks
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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." »Walt Whitman
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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." »Michael Lews
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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)" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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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." »Unknown
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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." »George Steiner
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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." »Fawn M. Brodie
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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." »Janina Atkins
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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." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"personal isn't the same as important." »Terry Pratchett
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"“Be ambitious towards your own personal enhancement."" »Steve Maraboli
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"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal passion, that's as unique as his DNA" »The Omani Shed
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities." »Walt Whitman
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"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions." »Cullen Hightower
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""Experience is the best teacher- personal but also vicarious"" »Yassine Aumerally
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"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." »William Carlos Williams
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"Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit." »Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.
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"The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns." »Martin Luther
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"The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic." »Anais Nin
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"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame." »MG Siriam
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"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence." »Edith Sitwell
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"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth." »Peter McWilliams
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"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong." »Tyron Edwards
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"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking." »George Eliot
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"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth."" »Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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"No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention." »Abraham Lincoln
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