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Say my name.

Walter White

Breaking Bad

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"Say My Name." Breaking Bad, written by Thomas Schnauz, directed by Thomas Schnauz, season 5, episode 7, High Bridge Productions/Gran Via Productions/Sony Pictures Television, 2012.

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Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees.

Paul Valéry

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Valéry, Paul. Quoted in Robert Irwin: A Way to Look at Things by Not Forgetting Their Names, written by Adrian Kohn. c. 1982.

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To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

Jules Huret

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Mallarme, Stephane. Quoted in "Sur l'Evolution Litteraire [On Literary Evolution]." Enquete de Huret [Investigation by Jules Huret]. Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1891.

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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The agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Voltaire

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Voltaire. Essai sur l'Histoire Generale et sur les Moeurs et l'Espri des Nations [An Essay on Universal History, the Manners, and Spirit of Nations]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1756, ch. 70.

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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. "Nicknames." Sketches and Essays. London: John Templeman, 1839.

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Say my name.

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Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees.

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To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.

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The agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.