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• As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Children, Book

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• Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

  E. O. Wilson

  Brain, Humans, Complexes

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• The object of love is to serve, not to win

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Valentines Day, Flower

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

  W. H. Auden

  Faith, Believe, Unique

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• Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Teaching, Mean

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.230, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, History

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• PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Passion, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

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• In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

  Winston Churchill

  Sarcastic, Children, Men

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Men, White Man

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.211, Ballantine Books

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• We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Religious, War

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.395, Wildside Press LLC

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• The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, God, Religious

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

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• In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Struggle, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans”, p.138

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• The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Suffering

  Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, founders.archives.gov. June 18, 1779.

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• All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

  William Wordsworth

  Gratitude, Money, Men

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.263, Delphi Classics

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• From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, War, Animal

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romance, Ships, Sail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.202, Penguin

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• As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Heart, Long, Mind

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• Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Eye, Looks

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.49

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• It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Mind, Unison

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

  George Santayana

  Real, Soul, Spirituality

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

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• The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  War, Giving, Training

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (1954). “Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”

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• A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Choices, Idolatry

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

  Joseph Addison

  Distance, Tired, Sight

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.4174, Delphi Classics

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• Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

  William Hazlitt

  Ideas, Giving, Atmosphere

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Children, Fun

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