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• A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.

  Khalil Gibran

  Blessing, Different, Would Be

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• Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Nice, Guy, Trying

  Caroline B. Cooney (2013). “Wanted!”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.

  Edmond Rostand

  Love, Flower, Communication

  Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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• Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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• It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

  Sam Savage

  Character, Giving, Weakness

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• That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

  Patricia Briggs

  Taken, Superhero, Sound

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.112, Penguin

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• One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

  Walter Scott

  Birthday, Glorious Life, Dancing

  Sir Walter Scott (1820). “Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality”, p.608

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• politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

  Louisa May Alcott

  Calling, Politician, Mathematics

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1018, e-artnow

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• Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Stuff, Lord, Shotguns

  Joe R. Lansdale (2011). “Dead in the West”, p.165, Gere Donovan Press

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• What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. "Always, always," it sighed, "faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Eye, Men, Color

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.

  John Marsden

  School, People, Church

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• There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Lonely, Zoos, Men

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• I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

  Kate Morton

  Real, Blood, Leaving

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Military, Civilization

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Civilization, Despair

  "Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)

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• There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, World

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

  Christopher Paolini

  Trying, Males, Problem

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• More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

  Dean Koontz

  Perseverance, War, Fall

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.294, Bantam

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• The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Teaching, Hands

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• There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

  Jodi Picoult

  Time, Grief, School

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• There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.

  Victor Pelevin

  Warrior, Views, Numbers

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• Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.

  Ian Mcewan

  Simple, Thinking, And Love

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• No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Thinking, Giving

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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• Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Heaven, Time Flies

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

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• This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Father, Taken

  "This Is the Work of the Master". Ensign magazine, p. 71, May 1995.

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