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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
We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle. -- Laozi
Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war. -- Robert Breault
I'd like to give divorce a good name. -- Geraldo Rivera
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. -- Plato
I hope I don't give music a bad name. -- Tiny Tim
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. -- Mason Cooley
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. -- Plato
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. -- Henri Poincare
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. -- Bernard DeVoto
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name. -- Steve Guttenberg
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. -- Jean Genet
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. -- Emile M. Cioran
I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe. -- Heinrich Himmler
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. -- John Lennon
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. -- Harrison Birtwistle
I don't think you should give away your name and face to something you don't believe 100-percent in. -- Claudia Schiffer
A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away. -- James Salter
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited. -- Aldrich Ames
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. -- Emily Dickinson
I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way. -- Elmore Leonard
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. -- Oscar Wilde
Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt, -- Jim Rogers
Who's he seeing now then?""No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long. -- David Nicholls
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing]. -- Henri Poincare

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