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• Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

  Francine Rivers

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fake, Masters, Said

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• Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Middle, Knows

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• Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Solitude, Mind, Usual

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.

  Alan Goldsher

  Dirty, Angel, Men

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• I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Sight, Lips

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.347, Scholastic Inc.

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• Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Reading, People

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dog, People

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.264, The Floating Press

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• [E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Air, Views, Plot

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.243, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hair, Rose, Burning

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• Never name the well from which you will not drink.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Avalon, Drink, Wells

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• Who is here with you?” “Don’t stop,” she begged. “Who is here with you?” he repeated, harshly this time. “You are.” “What is my name?” “Reyes

  Gena Showalter

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Pleasure”, p.165, HQN Books

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• Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)

  Paullina Simons

  Wind, Sky, Looks

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• How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.

  Elif Safak

  Real, Love Is, Challenges

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• she thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Causes, Psycho

  Song: Better Than Revenge, Album: Speak Now

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• Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Men, Animal

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.331, Pan Macmillan

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• He pinched the name tag and ran his fingers under the letters. "Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON." "Charon." "Amazing! Now: Mr. Charon." "Mr. Charon." "Well done.

  Rick Riordan

  Done, Care, Letters

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.204, Penguin UK

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• The Bird of Hermes is my name, Eating my Wings to make me tame.

  Kohta Hirano

  Fear, Wings, Bird

  "Hellsing". Manga series by Kouta Hirano, 1997 - September 30, 2008.

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• And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?

  J. K. Rowling

  Weasley, Fronts, Ron Weasley

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• I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Believe, Grateful, Sadness

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• There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

  David Eagleman

  Three, Body, Lasts

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from Feb 15, 2012

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• You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

  Jay-Z

  Song, Rap, Problem

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• ...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.

  Knut Hamsun

  Goodbye, Rip, Thinking

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• He reached out, opened the glove compartment, and took out a gun. It was a Smith & Wesson .38 five-shot special. It looked a lot like my gun. "I stopped by your apartment this morning and picked this up for you," Ranger said. "I found it in the cookie jar." "Tough guys always keep their gun in the cookie jar." "Name one." "Rockford." Ranger grinned. "I stand corrected.

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Gun, Guy

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• XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Song, Might

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