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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
-Chinese Proverb
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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
-English Proverb
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
-Joseph Addison
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I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears.
-Gillian Anderson
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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
-George S. Arundale
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
-W. H. Auden
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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
-Pearl Bailey
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You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.
-Pearl Bailey
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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. Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.
-James Baldwin
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
-James Baldwin
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.
-Bernard Baruch
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
-Jean Baudrillard
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.
-Keith Bellows
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.
-Walter Benjamin
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That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
-Yogi Berra
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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
-Wendell Berry
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.
-Ambrose Bierce
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
-Josh Billings
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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.
-Ralph Blum
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You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.
-Deborah Boliver Boehm
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Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are.
-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)
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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
-Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
-Francis H. Bradley
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Books about Identity
