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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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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. – Elias Canetti

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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. – Elias Canetti

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

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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. – Thomas C. Haliburton

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

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