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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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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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Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. – Terri Guillemets

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Words have meaning and names have power. – Author Unknown

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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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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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