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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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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrists couch. – Marshall McLuhan

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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. – Marshall McLuhan

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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. – Mary Daly

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

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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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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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