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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. -

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. – Chinese Proverb

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Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are. – Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)

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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. – English Proverb

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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. – Wendell Berry

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. – Pearl Bailey

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Poetry is mans rebellion against being what he is. – James Branch Cabell

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Look at the rainbow, and praise him who made it; it is exceedingly beautiful in its brightness. It encircles the sky with its glorious arc; the hands of the Most High have stretched it out. – Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) 43:11-12

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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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