Object Quotes

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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. — Patrick Henry
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. — Hermann Hesse
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
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. — Elbert Hubbard
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
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. — Elizabeth Hurley
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. — Robert M. Hutchins
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and… — Jonathan Ive
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our… — Alija Izetbegovic
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. — Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. — Thomas Jefferson
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it… — Steve Jobs
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other… — Immanuel Kant
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to… — Immanuel Kant
If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game… — Anatoly Karpov
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. — John Maynard Keynes
Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to… — Jeffrey Kluger
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as… — Jacques Lacan

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