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What draws me to family... if I were a psychiatrist, I'd say an enormous amount of unresolved personal material. If I were an anthropologist, I'd say families are at the root of social structures - they shape our identity, our belief systems - and so I find them fascinating. Also, I love the idea that families have narratives that are essentially the family story that is passed along generation to generation - and the rifts start when people question the story.

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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

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Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

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Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working

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'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

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Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

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My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

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Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

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There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

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I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them.

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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

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Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

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Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

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Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

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