Reference Quotes

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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law… — Mahmoud Abbas
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. — Gwendolyn Brooks
I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'. — Julian Casablancas
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston Churchill
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference… — John Henrik Clarke
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. — Carl von Clausewitz
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature… — R C Sproul
It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances,… — Isabella Beeton
After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration… — Glenn Healy
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the… — Anna Quindlen
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H.G. Wells
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who… — Tertullian
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not… — William Whately
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything?… — James Clerk Maxwell
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God… — Isaac Newton
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage… — Arthur Koestler
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and… — Wernher von Braun
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this… — Aldous Huxley
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess… — Tertullian

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