Objects Quotes
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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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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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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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.
William Blaikie
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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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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera
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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.
Charlotte Moss
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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
Johannes Stark
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Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.
Nick Szabo
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“The only value objects have is what people are willing to pay to own them.”
Vicki Delany
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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
Mike Mills
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A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
Ettore Sottsass
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I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
Serge Lang
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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.
Jean Dubuffet
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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?
George Wigram
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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
Georges Braque
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I love the fact that very often the most everyday objects take on another level of importance.
Nick Veasey
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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.
Noy Holland
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I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
Thomas Nagel
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For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another
Andree Putman
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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.
George Washington
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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.
Susanne Langer
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Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.
William Gifford
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There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
Michael Hansmeyer