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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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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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Decisions
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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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Food
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti

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Legacy
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Names
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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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Names

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

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Names

Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. – Samuli Paronen

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Names

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

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Names

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Im not going to change the world overnight. Its one person at a time, and hopefully theyre people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. – Gabrielle Union

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Change

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether its in the Bible or in Shakespeare. Its about oneness. – Hugh Jackman

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Change

Seven days of no swimming makes one weak. – Author Unknown

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Swimming

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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Corruption