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«Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art»
«[For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.»
Author: William H. Gass
| Keywords:
airports, landmark, landmarks, paragraphs, passages, point of reference, reference, reference point, restroom, restrooms, speedy
«As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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Miracles
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explained, Human Events, Human Relations, immutable, intelligible, natural causes, natural order, preserves, reference, reference to, relation to
«County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?»
Author: Calvin & Hobbes
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Words
| Keywords:
allowed, counties, county, definition, desk, desks, hello, hellos, library, not allowed, rattle, rattled, rattle off, reference, references, spell, swear, swear off, with reference to
«[In reference to Michael Jackson] In my estimation he is the true King of Rock Pop and Soul»
Author: Elizabeth Taylor
(Actress)
| Keywords:
estimation, estimations, Jackson, Michael, Michael Jackson, pop, reference, reference to
«A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
categorical, categorical imperative, imperative, objectively, reference, represented
«Eat and drink such an exact Quantity as the Constitution of thy Body allows of, in reference to the Services of the Mind.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
quantity, reference, reference to, services
«ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool.They stood before the altar and supplied The fire themselves in which their fat was fried. In vain the sacrifice! --no god will claim An offering burnt with an unholy flame. --M.P. Nopput»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
altar, fried, intestine, intestines, m, reference, reference to, sacrificial, small intestine, unholy, with reference to
«Consider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not, for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And, in short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| Keywords:
circumstance, done with, enable, in short, reference, references, reference to, with reference to
«Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem»
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