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Quote by Elias Canetti
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose i

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

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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesnt know the bad he might do. – Elias Canetti

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

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

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

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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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