Objects Quotes
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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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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
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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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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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Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
Moshe Safdie
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Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.
Rudolf Arnheim
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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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"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
George Clooney
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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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If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.
Ernest Becker
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I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
Sergio Leone
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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.
Karl Mannheim
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
William Stanley Jevons
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
Seneca the Younger
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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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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.
Amanda Coplin
