"Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life."
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"You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it."
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"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
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"Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?"
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"Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History."
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"I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power"
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"Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself."
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"There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue."
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"If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it."
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"You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned."
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"Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone..."
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"I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work."
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"Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name."
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"Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?"
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"Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law."
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"A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is now people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb."
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"Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three."
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"To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is."
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"Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name."
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"If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood."
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