"You have to be entrepreneurial and use your name."
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"The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform."
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"Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie.""
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"What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own."
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"Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle Into the Hell from which it first was furled."
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"A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives."
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"America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show."
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"Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole."
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"Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother."
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"The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind. ...Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure.""
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"Reality is always the foe of famous names."
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"Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other."
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"If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can."
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"Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?"
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"You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next."
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"We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value."
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"I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names."
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"It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession."
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"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
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"Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right."
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