"What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours."
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"The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him."
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"A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service."
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"The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!"
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"I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal."
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"Quick, name some towns in New Jersey"
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"There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between."
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"Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple."
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"Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself."
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"I want people to smile when they hear my name. I love everyone. I want to help make it a better time for the kids after me."
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"All about my riches/ My name should be Richard"
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"When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality."
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"when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones."
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"I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases"
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"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."
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"There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” “And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick. “Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."
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"Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination."
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"To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name."
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"All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him."
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"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
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