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'Is your maid called Florence?' 'Her name is Florinda.' 'What an extraordinary name to give a maid!' 'I did not give it to her; she arrived in my service already christened'.'What I mean is,'said Mrs Riversedge,'that when Iget maids with unsuitable names I call them Jane; they soon get used to it.' 'An excellent plan,'said theaunt of Clovis coldly; 'unfortunately I have got used to being called Jane myself. It happens to be my name.'
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Poetry in this latter age hath proved but a mean mistress to such as have whollyaddicted themselves to her, or given their names up to her family. They who have but saluted her on the by, and now and then tendered their visits, she hath done much for, and advanced in the way of their own professions (both the law and the gospel) beyond all they could have hoped, or done for themselves without her favour.

Ben Jonson

— Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse'  d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!

john keats

— 1820  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode to a Nightingale', stanza 6.

Tags: Darkling, listen, time, been, half, love, easeful, Death, him

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But we live like our names and you would have to be colonial to know the difference, to know the pain of history words contain.


— 1980  The Star-Apple Kingdom,'The Schooner Flight', pt.6.

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So our livesIn acts exemplary, not only winOurselves good names, but doth to others giveMatter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

George Chapman

— Act i, scene 1.

Tags: our, acts, exemplary, good, others, virtuous, deeds, we, live

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Well there are walls, that make a prison, many names that can bring hate. Yeah tear 'em down and ride 'em over.

jackson c. frank

— Don't Look Back

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And it's strangeThey are basically the sameSo i don't ask names anymore

ben gibbard

— Expo '86

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The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

diogenes laërtius

— Zeno, 68.

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Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.

Constant Lambert

— "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 31.

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The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude, towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

— Crabbed Age and Youth.

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UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

andrew s. tanenbaum

— Modern Operating Systems, 3rd ed., p. 40

Tags: UNIX, allow, path, drive, name, number, precisely, kind, device

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Adam named the living animals , MaddAddam names the dead ones.

margaret atwood

— Oryx and Crake (2003)

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Drewermann's contribution is indispensable for two reasons: because he takes mental/spiritual suffering seriously and works for the liberation of those who "all their life long, crippled and cramped by fear, were prevented from risking themselves in life." Secondly, because he does something for the worldwide Church which Latin American liberation theologians cannot achieve but need: he challenges the megainstitution's attempt to stabilize power by means of fear and names authoritarian religion "a form of violence."

eugen drewermann

— Dorothee Sölle, "Heilung und Befreiung," from Der Klerikerstreit, ed. Peter Eicher, p. 30. (1990) Quoted (and translated) in Matthias Beier, A Violent God-Image. An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann, p 3 (2004)

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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Kenneth Grahame

— Ch. 4 (The Reluctant Dragon)

Tags: Wild, Wood, pretty, populated, now, usual, good, bad, indifferent

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One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.

fitz-greene halleck

— Marco Bozzaris.

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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.

john keats

— Stanza 6. (Ode to a Nightingale)

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A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

james madison

— Letter to William Bradford (9 November 1772)

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Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example, of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.

james madison

— Federalist No. 14 (1787-11-30) text from Wikisource. This quotation was used on the official invitations to the 1985 presidential inaugural of President Ronald Reagan.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rainer Maria Rilke

— Worpswede (1903)

Tags: language, longer, anything, common, thing, movements, most, people, who

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Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.

robert silverberg

— "Sounding Brass, Tinkling Cymbal" in Hell's Cartographers (1975) edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison

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The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Essay on Christianity (1859).

Tags: perfect, genuine, republic, comprehends, living, distinctions, been, artificially, set

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Partisan of both “Madras” and “Chennai” used those names to assert that the city was, from its inception, a volatile borderland , a point of contact, mixing, hybridity . For its part “Chennai” suggests the frontier of pre-modern empire , whereas “Madras” is a frontier of modern imperial expansion. Both names, however, assert that the city is a “glocality” – a global entrepot in which diverse population , exchange media , languages , and ideas were brought into intimate and enduring relationships, and, more recently, a product of and staging ground for globalizing capitalism .


— Mary E. Hancock, modified the word ‘glocalisation’, coined by Roland Robertson to capture the articulation of global and local forces in the article “Globalization or Glocalization” published in the Journal of International Commemoration 1, no. 1 (1994):33-53, quoted in pp. 54, 227

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The battles are many, and the names used are varied. But the goal is one: a Crusader-Rafidite [Rafidites – Shiites, used derogatorily by Sunni extremists] war against the Sunnis.


— Leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi Declares "Total War" on Shiites, States that the Sunni Women of Tel'afar Had Their "Wombs Filled with the Sperm of the Crusaders" September 2005

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Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.


— Matthew 10:2-4

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O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

helen hunt jackson

— Helen Hunt Jackson, An Arctic Quest

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Our battle is more full of names than yours, Our men more perfect in the use of arms, Our armour all as strong, our cause the best; Then reason will our hearts should be as good.


— Act IV, scene 1, line 154.

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G. barbadense L. was named after its assumed habitat of Barbados . It has been known by alternative scientific names as Gossypium evertum , Gossypium peruvianum , Gossypium vitifolium and Gossypium brasiliense ( USDA 2006). It is commonly known as Creole cotton, Egyptian cotton, extra long-staple or ELS cotton, Indian cotton, Sea Island cotton or [[w:Pima cotton|Pima cotton.


— P.1 (The Biology of Gossypium hirsutum L. and Gossypium barbadense L. (cotton) Version)

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One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.


— Fitz-Greene Halleck, Marco Bozzaris.

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They once had names, long ago. And those names were


— Who: The Gentleman
— Source: Escape to LA (2011)
— Notes: .

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Alternative facts and fake news are just other names for propaganda.

Johnny corn

— "MPs Warn of the Threat Posed by Fake News – But Is It Already Out of Our Hands?," Kaleida, 1 August 2018

Tags: alternative Facts, Fake News, propaganda, other

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To God belong the names Most Beautiful; so call Him by them.

The Koran

— Sura 7, l.180.

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