"Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —"
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"Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay."
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"I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities."
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"I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent filmmakers, it's always good to try the international market because it doesn't have the same kind of baggage."
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"They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname."
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"Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home."
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"At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet."
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"Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution."
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"I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God."
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"A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product."
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"God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless."
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"The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name."
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"A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee."
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"We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow."
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"A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism."
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"He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips."
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"I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth."
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"God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings."
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"Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?"
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"In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony."
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