"I am not the river I am the net."

Identity, Self, Reflection, Metaphor

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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, Uniqueness, Special, Purpose

"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."

John Green, American Author

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"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"

David Levithan, American Author

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"You do not need to proof your significance."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither."

David Levithan, American Author

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"I am not the river I am the net."

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"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."

Freedom, Choice, Strength, Rules

"We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane."

Humanity, Past, Religion, Mystery, Insanity

"The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth."

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"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."

Home, Computer, Revolution, Logic

"The man without emotions is the one to fear."

Emotion, Fear, Danger, Caution

"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead."

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"What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?"

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"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."

Religion, Conflict, Church, History