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One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.

One’s identity derives not from one’s nation or blood but from the language one uses.
– Minae Mizumura

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  1. One’s identity derives not from one’s nation or blood but from the language one uses. – Minae Mizumura
  2. Art is not democratic. Art is sublime. – Minae Mizumura
  3. In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist. – Minae Mizumura
  4. Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast. – Minae Mizumura
  5. Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike. – Minae Mizumura
  6. Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. – John Ciardi
  7. A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. – William Saroyan
  8. In reality the concept of -˜other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  9. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  10. Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  11. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us. – Eugene H Peterson
  12. Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe. – Matthew D Lieberman
  13. You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville
  14. Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her ??????. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man’s access to) their kids. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  15. The blood of Christ -œpurchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation- (Revelation 5:9 NIV). – Billy Graham
  16. I am not the number or beautiful face on your black board as you want to give identity to me ! I am me . I am my identity . – litymunshi
  17. Your personal identity very much depends on the experience of the present moment and as the experience changes, your identity too change with it. – Roshan Sharma
  18. My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ. – JD Greear
  19. Through Christ we have a new identity–we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back. – Eric Samuel Timm
  20. The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. – Nick Joaqun
  21. Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag. – RuPaul
  22. My identity is not it, which given by the community. my identity is my natural mask. – MH Mahdi
  23. We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ. – Shelley Hendrix
  24. Stop taking identity in illness and start taking identity in wellness – Nina Leavins
  25. When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you. – Roshan Sharma
  26. It is a mother’s duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter. – Zen Cho
  27. The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  28. All women speak two languages:-¨the language of men-¨and the language of silent suffering.-¨ Some women speak a third,-¨the language of queens. – Mohja Kahf
  29. Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
  30. The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
  31. Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
  32. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  33. You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you – April Nichole
  34. His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique. – Richard Mitchell
  35. Just because everybody uses language, that doesn’t mean that they can write even tolerable prose. – Stephen Jones
  36. God uses language to create and command us. – Eugene H Peterson
  37. Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience. – Charles R Swindoll
  38. Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought. – David Brooks
  39. Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent. – Mary Deal
  40. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud

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