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William James Philosopher, Psychologist

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"Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."

Real Names Freedom

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity."

Names Wish Joy

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death."

Eye Names Honor

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame."

Writing Names Knowing

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."

Father Names Mercury

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"As I love the name of honour more than I fear death."

Names Fear Of Death Honour

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks."

Names God Conquer

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name."

Giving Names Knowledge

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name."

War Littles Names

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame."

Mother Names Revenge

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war."

War Names Peace

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both."

Names Rivers Fingers

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William Wordsworth Poet

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"Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood."

Names Imagination Power

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William Wordsworth Poet

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"Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same."

Long Names Desire

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian

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"Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses."

Home Names Travel

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian

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"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors"

War Names Ambition

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

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"Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around."

Want Names Trouble

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

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"I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business."

Names Used Hipster

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

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"Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions..."

Names Giving Up Marriage

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Woodrow Wilson Politician

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"The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world."

Names United States Neutrality

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