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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism, Ready, Ambitious

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

Work, Sleep, Start

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thought, Same, Breath

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott

Life, Age, Worth

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand

Care, Wrong, Sure

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
Bryant H. McGill

Lazy, Often, Action

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old, Acting, Head

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Real, Virtue, Vices

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard

Peace, Dream, House

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister Eckhart

Love, God, Best

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake

Happy, Two, Joy

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier

Money, Book, Brain

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.
Robert H. Schuller

Real, Jesus, Honor

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
Pope John Paul II

Best, Mother, Silence

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Character, Country, Another

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats

Here, Lies, Water

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

Life, Faith, God

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler

Power, Write, Whether

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana

Confusion, Minds, Order

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Battle, Understand, Military

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Men, Leave, Next

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Samuel Butler

God, Fight, Between

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne

Liar, May, Effort

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

Thought, Actually, Tombstone

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace

Life, Experience, Suffering

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

Sun, Poverty, Order

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Happen, Before, Cannot

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Mason Cooley

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Time, Next, Found

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

Everything, Thought, Why

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