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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.

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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

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God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

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Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.

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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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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.

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Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

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