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

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

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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. – Marshall McLuhan

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Society
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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

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Names

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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Policy is the people you work with. – William Gaskill

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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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