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I feel great identification with the developing world. -- Bianca Jagger
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding. -- Roman Jakobson
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections. -- Sonny Perdue
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. -- Bernard Berenson
When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later. -- Eydie Gorme
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. -- Anthony Kennedy
The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists. -- Richard Lamm
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. -- Amartya Sen
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts. -- Bobby Jindal
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. -- Ayn Rand
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through. -- Jodi Picoult
We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought -- Sushil Singh
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. -- Alfred Korzybski
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. -- Eckhart Tolle
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification. -- Mike Johanns
I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced. -- Louise Slaughter
The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people. -- Alexander McCall Smith
With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification. -- Patricia Cornwell
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. -- Saul Bellow
Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them. -- Jack Kingston
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty? -- Branford Marsalis
What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation. -- Reggie Watts
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. -- Ben Bradlee
Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose. -- Elton Gallegly
The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego. -- Andrew Cohen
Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities. -- Elton Gallegly
Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing. -- David Petraeus
When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off. -- Michael Shermer
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups. -- Sean Parker
When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime. -- Uzo Aduba
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model. -- Martin Jacques
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics. -- Miroslav Volf
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. -- Tim Jackson
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. -- Sherman Alexie
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. -- Ram Dass
Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent. -- Vincent Nichols
There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers. -- Rudy Giuliani
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. -- Ron Paul
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it. -- Eckhart Tolle
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. -- Albert Einstein
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities. -- Marianne Williamson
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly... -- John Galt
Friendship is identification and difference -- Hermann Hesse
So through identification you have pleasure and pain. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness. -- Ram Dass
Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything. -- Lester Levenson
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself -- John Dewey
Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy. -- John Cage
Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification. -- Matthew Carter
The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives. -- Marianne Williamson
Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. -- Ayn Rand
I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats. -- Thomas de Maiziere
It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be. -- Byron Katie
Early identification of your God-given abilities helps you to become happier and successful earlier in life. -- Maxine Phillips
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, -- Marilynne Robinson
The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat." -- Elmer Davis
Stop identification of your thoughts nd celebrate Now. Bcz life is made up of time that is NOW . . . . .!!! -- Sushil Singh
It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind. -- Eckhart Tolle
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification. -- Norman Mailer
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. -- Ramana Maharshi
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification. -- Eckhart Tolle
Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time. -- Rick Perlstein
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. -- Eckhart Tolle
Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be. -- Jack Kornfield
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all. -- Adyashanti
The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother -- Nancy Chodorow
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form. -- Eckhart Tolle
Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal. -- Eric Hoffer
The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification. -- Byron Katie
It's inconceivable that you don't have to show identification in order to vote or that that the identification doesn't have to be somewhat foolproof. -- Donald Trump
There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification. -- Peter Greenaway
It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO. -- Janez Drnovsek
Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive. -- Rachel Dolezal
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. -- David Mamet
Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion . -- Gregory Bateson
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me. -- Stanley Hauerwas
My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about! -- Erma Bombeck
[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes. -- Lynne Tillman
The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization. -- Francis Fukuyama
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue. -- Walter Lippmann
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because theyâ??re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. -- Ben Bradlee
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something. -- Sebastian Coe
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient. -- Amartya Sen
Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It's the same origin. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality. -- Arthur Koestler
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence. -- Eckhart Tolle
Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman?all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up! -- Swami Vivekananda
It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share. -- Randy Cohen
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there. -- Isaac Asimov
Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars. -- Vance Havner
War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. -- Arthur Koestler
It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17) -- Rollo May
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. -- Abraham Maslow
I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation. -- Paul Tillich
To transcend the identification with the body one has to realize the auspiciousness and divinity residing within each cell of the body. One needs to realize the illusory nature of the body. -- Amit Ray
Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification. -- Gary Kraftsow
The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In some states, a very small number of states, it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity, transgender identification. In the vast majority, it is perfectly legal. -- Allyson Robinson
As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met. -- Eckhart Tolle
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe. -- Sarah-Patton Boyle
When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them. -- Stephen Rea
I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion. -- Orhan Pamuk
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence. -- Eckhart Tolle

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