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More than this, it is well-known from our own experience of our senses that we cannot speak of a reference without a referent or a reference. In any reference there must be two or more elements, as in any dream there must be another world from...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about experience, dream, contentment, world

In our existence, absolutely anything that would refer to its self, as evil to evil and good to good would lead to the annulment of the actual reference, so it is absolutely necessary for a final referent to exist, that is in no way the same as...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about origin, good, good luck, end, existence, self-control

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any...

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Quote by Aristotel about moral, beauty

At some point, I stumbled across a reference to a mission...

At some point, I stumbled across a reference to a mission the United States sent to Antartica in 1941, just before the war began.

Quote by Michael Chabon about war

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable...

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Quote by Winston Churchill about devil, hell, home, house

In reference to the murder scene in “Dial M for murder”:...

In reference to the murder scene in “Dial M for murder”: As you have seen on the screen; the best way to do it is with a scissor.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, contentment

There are no answers, only cross references.

There are no answers, only cross references.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education

If your manager has nothing bad to tell you for too long...

If your manager has nothing bad to tell you for too long you will soon need their reference.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about heads, bad luck, need, bad, nothing, contentment

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact, if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

Quote by Talcott Parsons

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about question

The cardinal elements possess this title through the fact that they are the last frontier to the level of awareness through which that world can be defined. Life and Death are cardinal because nothing can include them in its structure by becoming...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about destiny, world, dream, death, nothing, life

To define an opposite, it’s necessary to have only one opposable element, and in the worlds where there are more than two opposable elements, the singularity of the opposable element in comparison with the other disappears, in the sense that Life...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about order, death, common sense, sense, life

We, people, are dual beings, and our world is a world of Life and Death, of Good and Evil, etc. If we weren’t dual beings and we were thinking based on a Logic Coefficient higher than two, let’s admit it would be five, then, beside Life and Death,...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about good, death, character, world, life, logic, thinking, good luck, people

No life can be compared to another Life unless both refer to Death! Even if a Life is different from another Life, it exists, as Life, only by referring to Death, because all other Lives it would refer to finally lead to the last referent which is...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about life, death

Where else can be seen more Death than in the world of...

Where else can be seen more Death than in the world of Life where each moment exists only through its reference to Death?

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, moment, world, life

This is man’s self and no matter how much man would like to become a perfect being that would belong to Good he will realize that this perfection will always face the need to be referenced precisely to Evil in order to exist.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about people, perfection, order, self-control, man, need, being, good, good luck, face

Truth can only be absolute because any of its relativity...

Truth can only be absolute because any of its relativity also includes lie toward the reference systems where it becomes variable.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about truth, lie, absolute, wisdom

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