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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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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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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan

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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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