"she thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things."
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"This is the last time I'm asking you this, Put my name at the top of your list, This is the last time I'm asking you why, You break my heart in the blink of an eye."
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"I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've always been able to be honest with my music. That's the one place where I'm never ever going to change how I do things."
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"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
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"Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun."
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"In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?"
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"Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this."
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"We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth."
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"The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement."
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"We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things."
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"By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary."
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"God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive."
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"God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy."
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"Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul."
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"Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts."
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"I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today."
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"The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page."
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"We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues."
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"In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us."
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"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"
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