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Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael. -- Thomas Keneally
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it. -- Lloyd Alexander
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation. -- Alan Paton
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Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything? -- Karen Lord
Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big. -- Jim Butcher
Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestation/s. But these patterns of thought can have so much to do with whimsy that magic often is jokes. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you. -- Vera Nazarian
He said true things, but called them by wrong names. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. -- Gustave Flaubert
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. -- Alexander Theroux
My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person. -- Roberto Cavalli
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. -- Harvey Milk
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion. -- Harvey Milk
It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there because of my acting rather than who I'm being photographed with. -- Josh Bowman
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. -- Victor Hugo
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. -- Wyndham Lewis
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department. -- Ann Sothern
On 'True Blood,' the character's name is Sookie Stackhouse, and my name is Suki Waterhouse. So, I get people saying, 'Oh, I thought we were meeting the girl from True Blood.' -- Suki Waterhouse
I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters. -- Ruth Rendell
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. -- Algernon H. Blackwood
In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform. -- Oliver North
If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true. -- Lauren Conrad
As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples. -- Wendy Davis
I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself. -- Margaret Wise Brown
Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in - everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested. -- Paula Garces
True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful. -- Nicholson Baker
How far should a person go in the name of true love? -- Nicholas Sparks
Be true to who you are and the family name you bare. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry. -- Stevie Wonder
Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord. -- Guru Gobind Singh
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter. -- Richard Hamming
The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief. -- Emile M. Cioran
Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true. -- John Wall
Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord. -- Guru Nanak
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience -- William James
What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true? -- Hugh Nibley
The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully. -- Aleister Crowley
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The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons. -- William James
True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you're already learning how to make it less harmful. -- Martha Beck
There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that. -- Jules Feiffer
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue. -- Tom Robbins
Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories... as well as mine. -- Megan Duke
Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale. -- George Henry Borrow
There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible! -- Susan B. Anthony
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing. -- Ruth Rendell
Now that's true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me. -- Franny Billingsley
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion! -- Harvey Milk
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently the visual translation. -- Diane Duane
I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics. -- Tammara Webber
Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone. -- Jason Hartman

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