Quotes with object

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  • Boris Pasternak No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Abel Stevens No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
    Abel Stevens
    American Methodist clergy (1815 - 1897)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Karl Marx Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Alberto Giacometti Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Our discussion has shown that while in war many different roads can lead to the goal, to the attainment of the political object, fighting is the only possible means.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Robin George Collingwood Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Francis Bacon People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Candice Bergen People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Voltaire Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • George Meredith Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Napoleon Public instruction should be the first object of government.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Betty Rollin Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.
    Letter to Republicans, 31-03-1809
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Shirley Williams The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Hannah Arendt The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Blaise Pascal The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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