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We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy”

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.69, Bantam

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

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She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1054, Bantam

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.

George R. R. Martin (2004). “Dying of the Light”, p.95, Bantam

A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

George Parsons Lathrop (1892). “Dreams and Days: Poems”

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.229

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.429, Broadview Press