Object Quotes
2140 quotes by 1419 authors
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history…
— Louis Althusser
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The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the…
— Gilles Deleuze
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The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
— Piet Mondrian
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The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What…
— David Brock
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Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
— Max Euwe
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All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing…
— Charles Hodge
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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
— Erich Gamma
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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an…
— William Graham Sumner
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Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is…
— George Soros
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The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate…
— Philip Larkin
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A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be…
— Hayden Carruth
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Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it…
— Gorgias
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The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the…
— Robert E. Lee
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my bill that calls…
— Rand Paul
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Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.
— Robert Bresson
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It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the…
— Moshe Dayan
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