When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. – Jess C. Scott,

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

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Jess C. Scott,

The Intern

I’m a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than

I’m a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

–
Charles de Lint

The Professor doesn t have a problem being called Dick If my name was Richard, I d go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I d even

The Professor doesn t have a problem being called Dick If my name was Richard, I d go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I d even settle for being called Chard.

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Simone Elkeles,

Rules of Attraction

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional. – Max Lucado, When God Whispers Your Name

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

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Max Lucado,

When God Whispers Your Name

Could you just call me Pigeon he asked the teacher when she read his name. Does your mother call you Pigeon No. Then to me

Could you just call me Pigeon he asked the teacher when she read his name.
Does your mother call you Pigeon
No.
Then to me you are Paul.
…
Nathan Sutter, the teacher read.
My mother never calls me Nathan.
Is it Nate
She calls me Honeylips.

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Brandon Mull,

The Candy Shop War

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the ‘American civil religion.’ The president must invoke the name of

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the ‘American civil religion.’ The president must invoke the name of God though not Jesus, glorify America’s heroes and history,quote its sacred texts the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.

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Jonathan Haidt