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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Identity

"The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies."

Lying Identity Special You
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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
Identity

"Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers' belief in their level of intelligence."

Teacher Levels Identity
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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Identity

"I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil."

Hands Evil Identity
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Identity

"We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world."

World Identity Enlightenment
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Identity

"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."

Way Lost Identity
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Identity

"An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger."

Fall Identity Stranger
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered."

Way Identity Occupation
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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
Identity

"The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive."

Generations Violence Identity
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself."

White Identity Black History
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Mary McCarthy Author
Identity

"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man."

Men Doe Identity
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