Objects Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.
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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.
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All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.
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Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
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Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
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I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
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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.
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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.
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
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It turns out, Newton is correct: Objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and twelve-year-old-boys are even more resistant to motion than regular matter.
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"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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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.
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How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
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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.
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I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.
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Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
