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• Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' — Alton Brown
• [To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair
• True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are… — Walter Lippmann
• Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners… — Frederick Lenz
• When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in… — Edgar Allan Poe
• So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way… — Nicholson Baker
• Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason… — Anne Frank
• Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer… — Marguerite Duras
• If you look it up on the Internet, it is cancer...They refer to it as noninvasive cancer. — John Gotti

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