Objects Quotes
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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.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
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I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.
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I want women to be the subject, not the object.
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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 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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The great object is to find the theory of the matter of X-rays before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
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The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.
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What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
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The first objects to be designed with the sole purpose of killing another person.
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Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
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It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon.. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky.
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When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
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And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.
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You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.
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Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
