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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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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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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at drivers license age than at voting age. – Marshall McLuhan

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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. – Marshall McLuhan

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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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Names

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

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

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