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“Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.”

Mind Government Today Names Speak Share Internet Citizens Let Me Prison Chinese Addresses Chinese Government

Author:Tom Lantos

“Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.”

Humans War Opportunity Names Speak Sides Human Beings Cases Atheist Certainty Convince Righteousness Behalf Blasphemy Proletariat

Book:God Is Not One

Source: God Is Not One

“Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name. But no atheist can be forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God.”

People Want Believe Persons Enough Might Names Speak Religious Demand Diversity Court Embrace Atheist Broads Believe In God Offended Accommodate Unbelief Pluralism Religious Person

Author:Cal Thomas

“To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”

Men Art Reality Names Speak Materials Communication Aim

Author:Asger Jorn

“Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.”

“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”

Firsts Heart Soul Feelings Light Together Past Names Speak Duty Reflection Conscience First Time Breaths Passionate Faculty Intensity Passionate Love

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?”

Names Speak Communication Cannibal

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.”

People Giving Use Problem Certain Names Speak Drug Abuse Jew Spokes Nazi Persecution Drug Abuse

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.”

Men Giving Children Reason Found Names Speak Language Sound Fingers Tongue Gestures Recourse

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.”

Men World May Play Eye Names Speak Water Walks Forever Flow Baseball Praise Raises Fellows Blind Old Man Thirst Fellow Man Captives

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.”

Persons Form Jesus Names Speak Goal Christ Divine Son Jesus Christ Essence Assuming Centre Trinity Prominent Corresponding

Book:Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God

Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God

“Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.”

Thinking Knows Names Speak Lord Pursue Thee Labour

Author:Charles Wesley

“The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!"”

Said Reality Eye Names Speak Expression Masters Eternal Concepts His Eyes Mysticism Scholar Transcendent Transient Disarming

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.”

Trying Stills Names Speak Enemy Publicity Recommendations Disapproval

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.”

Art Names Speak Sun Land Wind Months Spring Praise Train Glad Passing Passings Welcome Thee Loud Gentle Glorious March Bleak Stormy

Author:William C. Bryant

“Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.”

World Wells Light Earth Universe Names Speak Language Heaven Stars Christ Repeats Passages

Author:Philip James Bailey

“The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.”

Names Speak Dare Shut Up Homosexuality

Author:Robertson Davies

“In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.”

Source: Lectures on Education

“Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.”

Giving Purpose Names Speak Bits Cities Chicago Spit

Book:Locations

Source: Locations

“History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.”

Knows Way Humans Names Speak Fields Food Kings Cooking Celebrate Folly Thrive Culinary Scorn Battlefields Wheat Human Folly

Author:Jean-Henri Fabre

“Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.”

Humans Names Speak Animal Creatures Silent Dumb Crow Inappropriate Hoot

Author:Winifred Holtby

“The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.”

Names Speak Homosexuality

Author:Robert Brustein

“I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.”

Kids School Names Speak Teacher Childhood Tough

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“You know... when one speaks your name very fast, it just sounds like just incredible”

Knows Names Speak Sound Incredibles

Author:Kurt Angle

“I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!”

Jesus Names Speak Nations Wind Praying South Calm Wave Storm Command Boat Midst South Africa Patriot Calmness I Pray

Author:T. B. Joshua

“Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.”

People Ifs Firsts Wells Children Able Names Speak Secret Nice Safe What If Suspects

Author:Anne Enright

“The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about. Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?' I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.' Took us a half hour to revive Mr. Caruso.”

“Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!”

Believe Reason Whole Truth Form Names Speak Understood Skins Appearance Surface Greek Tone Superficial Adore Folds Profundity Olympus

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!”

Humans Heart Hard Use Values Names Speak Language Friendship Knowing Doubt Friends Creatures Tasks Assuming Pity Surround Suspicion Maxims Use Of Language

Author:Sarah Fielding

“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.”

Ifs Should Littles Happens Names Speak Rooms Education Taken Impossible Childhood Missing Cry Tears Taught Ready Neglect Overlooked

Author:Sarah Fielding

“The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.”

Giving Character Use Literature Names Speak Sex Causes Numbers Mass Novelists Behave Gestures Consistently Colleagues Describing Plausible Inverted Niceties

Author:E. M. Forster

“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.”

Ifs Trying Wells Helping Use Able Names Speak Given My Own Pleasure Talent Duty Reader Benefits Prejudice Humble Endeavour

Author:Anne Bronte

“For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!”

Names Speak Heaven Fool Sake Tongue

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute.”

Source: Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery