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Quote by Elias Canetti
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You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? – Elias Canetti

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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb

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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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