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“Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.”
Albert Einstein
“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.”
Robert Penn Warren
“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.”
Dennis Quaid
“The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity. Even if we loathe our families, in order to know ourselves, we seem to need to know about them, just as prologue. Not to know is to live with some of the disorientation and anxiety of the amnesiac.”
Elizabeth Stone
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body.”
John Keats
“all young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.”
Harvey Milk
“Strengthening our identity is one way or reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.”
David Blunkett
“I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.”
Jay London
“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”
Slobodan Milosevic
“As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.”
Michelle Shocked
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