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"She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb."
"Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it."
"God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath."
"What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves."
"We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men."
"The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own."
"It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself."
"This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church."
"We wanted a name that people would remember and get pissed off about. Nothing too deep, believe me."
"I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are."
"My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!"
"For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers."
"When we rise out of [the night] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know of that which - of him who gives them to us? Only what we experience from time to time from the signs themselves. If we name the speaker of this speech God, then it is always the God of a moment, a moment God."
"When a woman says, 'I don't wish to mention any names', it means it ain't necessary to mention any names."
"We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches."
"I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?"
"The song still remains which names the land over which it sings."
"But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God."
"Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either"
"He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away."
