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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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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. – Elias Canetti

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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. – Elias Canetti

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. – Elias Canetti

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

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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. – Proverb

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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. – Mary Daly

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