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1->''The Not-to-Be-Named-One, not being named, is difficult to identify.''
2-->-- From Website/TheOtherWiki on the MotherOfAThousandYoung
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4->"Usually called The Doctor, or the Caretaker, or Get Off This Planet...though strictly speaking that isn't a name."
5-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"
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7->There's no telling, of course, [[ParanoiaFuel no finding him until he chooses to find you]]. For of course, when he learned this great secret of [[AbstractEater eating names]], of [[SpaceTimeEater biting chunks of reality itself]] free from the world and [[RetGone gulping them down]], the first name he surely must have eaten was his own.
8-->--The Story Of The Eater, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''
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10->32. People’s names are assigned at birth.\
1133. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth.\
1234. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth.\
1335. [[InflationaryDialogue Five years]]?\
1436. [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You’re kidding me, right?]]
15-->--'''[[http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names]]'''
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17->The cowboy's name was not [[MeaningfulName Buddy Carson]].
18->The cowboy didn't have a name, not now. There might have been one a long time ago, but if there was then it had been lost to him for many years. His new life began on the day he awoke in the middle of the Nevada desert wearing ragged clothes, and with [[BodyHorror tumors on his skin]].
19-->--''[[Creator/JohnConnolly The Cancer Cowboy Rides]]''
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21->"And yet...now that I am an old, old man, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl, of whom I have never ceased to dream, these many long years. She was the only earthly love of my life, yet I never knew--nor ever learned--her name."
22-->Last line of TheNarrator of ''Film/TheNameOfTheRose''
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24->'''Chiaki:''' All Kyoto is talking about the unnamed samurai who cut through Shindo Dojo.
25->'''Mizu:''' I ''have'' a name.
26->'''Chiaki:''' ''(advancing with sword drawn)'' No-one will ever know it.
27-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai'', "An Unexpected Element"

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