"Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing."
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"This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya."
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"Body is the name of a series of changes."
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"Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember."
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"National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races."
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"Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go."
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"What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes."
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"I collect men with interesting names."
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"Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard"."
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"Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling."
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"I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor."
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"American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds."
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"Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are."
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"And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me."
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"Loving means getting rid of names."
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"I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed."
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"No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser."
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"How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire"
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"I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character."
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"So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that."
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