Objects Quotes
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The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.
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How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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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.
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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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To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.
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Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.
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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
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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.
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I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.
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“The only value objects have is what people are willing to pay to own them.”
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I love the fact that very often the most everyday objects take on another level of importance.
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I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.
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It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.
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A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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What wealth have you, if you have not got Christ? If Christ is the object before you, will all the things that fret you take Christ from you? All the things you long for, will they give you more of Christ?
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I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.
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I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.
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My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
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I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
