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“My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name “Lynn”. My old girlfriend’s name is Lyn, too, but she spells it “Lyn”. Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend’s name, and she can tell because I don’t say “n” as long.”
Mitch Hedberg
Girlfriend
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Name
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Spelling
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Mistake
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Humor
2.
“I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.”
Mitch Hedberg
Name
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Brain
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Humor
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Intelligence
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Mistake
3.
“Listen to a name so private it can burn hear it said aloud and learn and learn History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison of all they want to keep Now.”
Leonard Cohen
Name
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Private
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History
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Poison
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Learn
4.
“To see one’s name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.”
Gustave Flaubert
Fame
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Name
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Recognition
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Desire
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Obsession
5.
“A good name is like precious ointment; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.”
Francis Bacon
Reputation
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Name
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Value
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Legacy
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Honor
6.
“When we profess God’s name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.”
Thomas J. Watson
God
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Name
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Profession
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Life
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Vain
7.
“Mr. Johnson had just been reading the “Lady of the Lake,” and at once suggested that my name be “Douglass.” From that time until now I have been called “Frederick Douglass.””
Frederick Douglass
Identity
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Name
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History
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Change
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Recognition
8.
“We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.”
Ram Dass
Identity
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Conflict
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Ego
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Name
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Separation
9.
“Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.”
Denis Waitley
Excellence
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Work
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Name
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Quality
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Lasting Excellence
10.
“Seeking to perpetuate one’s name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.”
Dwight L. Moody
Legacy
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Eternity
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God’s Kingdom
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Purpose
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Name
11.
“Friendship is but a name. I love no one.”
Nepolian Bonaparte
Friendship
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Name
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Love
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Solitude
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Trust
12.
“What is my name, o what is my name that I may offer it back to the beautiful world? Have I walked long enough where the sea breaks raspingly all day and all night upon the pale sand?”
Mary Oliver
Name
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Identity
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Offering
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Connection
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Self-exploration
13.
“We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.”
Marcel Proust
Think
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Name
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Live
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Feel
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Divided Worlds
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Emotional Reality
14.
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
John Keats
Name In Water
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Ephemeral Memory
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Legacy Reflection
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Name
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Water
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Legacy
15.
“I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.”
Barbara Corcoran
Self Love
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Embracing Identity
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Inner Joy
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Confidence
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Name
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Happiness
16.
“Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.”
Lady Gaga
Identity Assertion
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Public Persona
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Personal Recognition
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Gaga
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Name
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Identity
17.
“I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don’t seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.”
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
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Name
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Identity
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Change
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Society
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Memory
18.
“Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.”
Vladimir Nabokov
Chance Sentence
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Name Mention
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Conversation Highlight
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Sentence
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Name
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Conversation
19.
“His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.”
Stephen King
Identity
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Power
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Name
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Darkness
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Mystery
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Fate
20.
“Hodor!”
George R. R. Martin
Hodor
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Name
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Strength
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Simplicity
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Mystery
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Character
21.
“Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”
George R. R. Martin
Mockery
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Name
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Identity
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Strength
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Words
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Power
22.
“I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.”
George R. R. Martin
Habitual Routine
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Familiar Paths
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Life's Journey
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Steps
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Climb
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Name
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“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.”
Brian Tracy
Self-respect
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Success
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Name
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Identity
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Relationships
24.
“A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.”
Henry David Thoreau
Identity
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Name
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Love
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Recognition
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Service
25.
“It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Writing
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Name
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Creation
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Inspiration
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Story
26.
“Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Identity
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Self
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Solitude
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Name
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Existence
27.
“That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess.”
Nelson Mandela
Identity
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Name
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Heritage
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History
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Mystery
28.
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare
Name
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Identity
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Rose
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Love
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Meaning
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William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
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