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“The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.”

Self Whole Universe Creative Identity Creatures Elements Diversity Including Oneness Repeats Mutual Cracks Doom Self Identity

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”

Way May Whole Language Term Natural Simple Identity Elements Various Tricks Data Native Bags Compatible Native Language

Book:Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

“In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.”

Humans Two Culture Identity Members Elements Belonging Ingredients Human Experience Laboratory

Book:Families and Family Therapy

Source: Families and Family Therapy

“I don't think that there is one "authentic" element of American style to identity - it's about a sense of freedom, individuality, and embracing personal style. Fashion also has a bit of mystery, which is part of the allure, and yet anyone can partake.”

Thinking Bits Mystery Fashion Style Identity Elements Individuality Personal Style Allure Fashion Style

Author:Thakoon Panichgul

“Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.”

Art Ideas Black Talking Roles Rights Identity Revolution Elements Productions Resistance Civil Rights Aggressive Affirmation Refusal Assertion Successors Jamaica Black Art

Author:Mark McMorris

“When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."”

Character Home House Energy Alive Style Identity Personality Elements Enthusiasm Warmth Declaring Personality And Character

Author:Ralph Lauren

“I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.”

People Thinking Kind Easy Black Identity Color Gay Conflict Elements Direct All Kinds Layers

Author:John Amaechi

“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.”

People Ifs Thinking Men World Trying Has Beens Art Black Deals Struggle Our Lives Identity Elements Invisible Who We Are Indifferent Just Saying All Black Black Art

Author:Cheo Hodari Coker

“Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.”

Ifs Men Feels Light Eye Darkness Identity Elements Essence His Eyes

Book:Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale