Quotes 61 till 80 of 151.
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It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
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it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
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Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
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Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
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Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
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My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
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My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
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My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.
On composing Official Bio and Reflections Bio -
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
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