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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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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I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
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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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... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
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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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The first objects to be designed with the sole purpose of killing another person.
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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 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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Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.
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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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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
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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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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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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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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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Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.
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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 don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
