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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the… — Lewis H. Lapham
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing… — George Eliot
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and… — Henry David Thoreau
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of… — June Jordan
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.… — Oscar Wilde
Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you;… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for… — Danielle LaPorte
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master. — Alexander Hamilton
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them.… — Robbie Robertson
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld… — Robert Burns
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names… — Robbie Robertson
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the… — Khalil Gibran
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of… — Georges Bernanos
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? — Arthur Miller
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name… — Oliver Cromwell
Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein,… — Ernest Van den Haag
[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its… — Benjamin Rush
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be,… — James Madison
You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but… — Unknown Author
You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society… — Quentin Crisp
My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ! — Spike Milligan
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in… — Sufjan Stevens
I must admit that when I chose the name, "vitamine," I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an… — Unknown Author

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