Object Quotes

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The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers,… — David Deutsch
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer. — Frida Giannini
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object. — Colin Greenwood
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little… — Mary Antin
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… — Samuel Alexander
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged… — Samuel Alexander
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would… — William Ames
If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But… — H. L. Mencken
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially… — Thomas Jefferson
They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the… — Arthur Miller
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by… — Percy Williams Bridgman
â€¦ what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names â€” otherwise you would be selling… — Edsger Dijkstra
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object. — Isaac Asimov
The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to… — Eric S. Raymond
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and… — James A. Garfield
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image.… — Ezra Pound
For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition… — Marilyn French
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also… — Anthony Giddens
No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must… — Deborah Lupton
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory… — Paramahansa Yogananda

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