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• I am in love with every church
  And mosque
  And temple
  And any kind of shrine
  Because I know it is there
  That people say the different names
  Of the One God.

  Hafez

  Names, People, Church

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• We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

  Barack Obama

  Names, Different, May

  Barack Obama's Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2010.

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• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  Bruce Sterling

  War, Clouds, Mushrooms

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• They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

  Ike Turner

  Change, Thinking, Years

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• The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Names, Giving, Example

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• Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Buddhism, Names

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• What's really fun is to write under different names.

  Tom Verlaine

  Fun, Writing, Names

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• The burqa is a way of controlling the woman, but in the name of respect. Every culture or religion gives a different name for the burqa. It is honor, or culture, or religion. Really, it just controls the woman and keeps her inside.

  Malina Suliman

  Names, Giving, Honor

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Men, Names

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Flower, Past

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

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• In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Airplane, Animal, Names

  Stephen Mitchell (2007). “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?

  Neal Shusterman

  Hands, Names, Doe

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• I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

  Christopher Walken

  Cat, Names, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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