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Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and… — Huey Newton
The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer… — James Gleick
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. — Gustave Courbet
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects. — Rudolf Arnheim
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of… — Rudolf Arnheim
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly… — Jonathan Raban
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good… — Garth Stein
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when… — George Saunders
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard… — Ramakrishna
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be… — Nassau William Senior
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add… — Michel Foucault
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is… — Maria Montessori
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change.… — Henri Poincare
Chakras really are dimensions. We think of them as objects, but they're not really. They're dimensional access points, whereby we can enter into different levels… — Frederick Lenz
I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one… — Robert Lanza
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters,… — Charles C. Mann
The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like… — Eva Zeisel
We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're… — Alain de Botton

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