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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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – 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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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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

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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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