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We tend to mistake music for the physical object.


David Byrne
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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.


George Henry Lewes
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.


Rachel Cusk
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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.


Laurence J. Peter
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.


Oscar Wilde
Tags: Will Look Certain
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No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.


Michael Polanyi
Tags: Ever Laws Fully
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I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.


Philip Treacy
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.


Octavio Paz
Tags: Love Never Woman
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The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.


Henry Fielding
Tags: Me Think I Think
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.


Man Ray
Tags: Dreams Just Been
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.


Lucian Freud
Tags: Out Them Much
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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.


Swami Sivananda
Tags: You Get Will
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.


Gabriel Marcel
Tags: Science Up Extent
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.


Eberhard Arnold
Tags: Who Only Those
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?


Thomas Carlyle
Tags: Truth More Kind
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean Genet
Tags: Some Man Main
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus
Tags: Truth Like Every
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
Thomas Keating
Tags: Will Rather Word
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
Joel Salatin
Tags: God Way World
The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
Theodor Adorno
Tags: Truth Open Genius
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Maimonides
Tags: Where Must Human
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
John Quincy Adams
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.


Oliver Reed
Tags: Women Like Them
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
Moshe Safdie
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
Margaret Heffernan
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone Weil
Tags: Faith Should Made
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Tags: Women Men Day
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Tags: Nature Only Man
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
John Breaux
Tags: You Like Part
I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.
Samuel R. Delany
Tags: About Which Thing
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Tags: He Man His
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
David Hume
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon Hill
Tags: Nature You Up
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Samuel Alexander
I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.
Tippi Hedren
Tags: You Really Know
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.
Theodor Herzl
Tags: Just Our First