Object Quotes
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There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.
Charlotte Dacre
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
George Bernard Shaw
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Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.
Confucius
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...
Jane Austen
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However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
Averroes
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The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
Baruch Spinoza
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The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
George Bernard Shaw
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Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
Confucius
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Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this isn't so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm.
Alexander Stepanov
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
Abraham Lincoln
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
Thomas Carlyle
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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
Gavin Turk
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The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves to go back and dwell with our Heavenly Father; and our Father, knowing the faults and failings of men has given us certain commandments to obey, and if we will examine those requirements and the things that devolve upon us we will find that they are all for our individual benefit and advancement. The school of life in which we are placed and the lessons that are given to us by our Father will make of us exactly what He desires, so that we may be prepared to dwell with Him.
Heber J. Grant
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
Baruch Spinoza
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As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.
Akiva Goldsman
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Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.
Albert Paley