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"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
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"We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ['Walking down the memory lane']"

"He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection."

"I am not Iron-Man, I am Forest-Man!"

"Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new."

"How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in."
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"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."

"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."

"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."

"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study."

"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."

"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."

"It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them."

"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"
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