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~ Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ~

W. H. Auden

~ Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them. ~

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

~ Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ~

Logan Pearsall Smith

~ Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ~

Seneca

~ Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice. ~

John Adams

~ The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~

Margaret Atwood

~ We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come. ~

Walt W. Rostow

~ I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blends becomes as real as a keynote of music. Look at the exquisite yellow flowerettes at the center, become very small with them. Be the flower, be the trees, the blowing grasses. Fly with the birds, jump with a squirrel! ~

Sally Carrighar†

~ The time is almost upon us when a pack-train must wind its way up a graveled highway and turn its bellmare in the pasture of a summer hotel. When that day comes, the pack-train will be dead, the diamond hitch will be merely rope, and Kit Carson and Jim Bridger will be names in a history lesson. And thenceforth the march of empire will be a matter of gasoline and four wheel brakes. ~

Aldo Leopold

~ I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes. ~

Don Delillo

~ There is currently substantial interest for multiple tenants, but the announcement is premature. The names you are going to like, but the flip side to creating something this great means it will take longer. ~

CEO Mike Bowen

~ We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics. ~

Price Pritchett

~ An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. ~

Ian Williams

~ Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~

Bill Vaughn

~ Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. ~

Thomas Love Peacock

~ People's fates are simplified by their names. ~

Elias Canetti

~ Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. ~

Horace

~ Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution. ~

Mark Twain

~ The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. ~

Ho Chi Minh

~ Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two ~

Marcel Proust

~ By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks and hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels' wives. ~

Richard Nixon

~ The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world. ~

Jean Baudrillard

~ The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~

Margaret Atwood

~ Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all at once Pour into the wide hollows of my brain, And deify me, as if some blithe wine Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk, And so become immortal. ~

John Keats

~ If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them. ~

William Hazlitt

~ All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters. ~

Gordon Lightfoot

~ And we were angry and poor and happy,And proud of seeing our names in print. ~

G.K. Chesterton

~ America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help--because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won. ~

Martha Gellhorn

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