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“The second general division of names is into concrete and abstract. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name is a name which stands for an attribute of a thing.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Names have been further distinguished into univocal and æquivocal: these, however, are not two kinds of names, but two different modes of employing names.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent—I name no names.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
“And she didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“In the midst of all this, there was Bernie Madoff. An embezzler named "made-off." Hmm. Yes. Was the name not a clue? Did he have to be with the accounting firm of Dewy, Fuckyou & Howe?” Robin Williams, Weapons of Self Destruction
“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Mine's Bond - James Bond.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again, said the ancient Egyptians: not always what one might wish.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Everybody was legally alive now. Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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