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«When we speak the word ''life',' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.»
«A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder»
«Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.»
«To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.»
«As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.»
«I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.»
«Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.»
«Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.»
«A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest»
«Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.»