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"There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture."
"Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness.""
"Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us."
"The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group."
"The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth."
"Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition."
"Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
"If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol."
"The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit."
"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."
"Guns are part of the American identity."
"we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations."
"The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated."
"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."
"We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets."
"The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself."
"If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group."
"If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world."
"I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five."
"Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity."
