Objects Quotes
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
William James
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When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
Rene Girard
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Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.
Gary A. Kowalski
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I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
Sergio Leone
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It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
Brigham Young
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When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
Darren McCarty
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Abel Stevens
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The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
Wendy Wasserstein
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The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
Blaise Pascal
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To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
Milarepa
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Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.
Allan Kaprow
