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• Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People, Violence, Dangerous

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). “The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution”, p.236, Harriman House Limited

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• We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Trying, Done

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• Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Summer, Lost Love, Rain

  Teresa Medeiros (2013). “The Vampire Who Loved Me”, p.216, Amber House Books

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• The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Learning, Justice

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• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Determination, Goal

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.155, Jaico Publishing House

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• To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

  Martin Van Buren

  Patriotic, Government, Debt

  Martin Van Buren (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk”, p.1829, Wildside Press LLC

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• what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Educational, Italian

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• in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Spring, Educational, Character

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• I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Men, Attention

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.243, Algora Publishing

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• Victory is the main object in war.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Victory

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• In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• The education of the will is the object of our existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, School, Existence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

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• An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

  Isaac Newton

  Insperational

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• If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.

  Charles Darwin

  Intelligent, Men, Rude

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 28: The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits”, p.43, NYU Press

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• Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Beer, Afternoon, Half

  R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

  Charles B. Macdonald

  Mistake, Pride, Golf

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• It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

  John F. Kennedy

  Golf, Hands, Skills

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Order

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

  William James

  Strong, Real, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.78, Nuvision Pubns

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• The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

  William James

  Educational, Philosophy, Men

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.78, Nuvision Pubns

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• From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

  William James

  Teacher, Children, Philosophy

  William James (1907). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”

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• If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Ideas

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.80, Nuvision Pubns

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• If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

  William James

  Running, Couple, Educational

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Past

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.123, Nuvision Pubns

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• An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

  Bruno Munari

  Badass, Bad Ass, Use

  Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd

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