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• The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when lightning happens to fall upon some terrestrial object, or when water is electrolysed, has been engaging my attention the last couple of years, and induced me to make many attempts at clearing up that mysterious phenomenon. Though baffled for a long time, at last, I think, I have succeeded so far as to have got the clue which will lead to the discovery of the true cause of the smell in question.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Success, Couple, Fall

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• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

  John Constable

  Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude

  Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

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• No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

  Alan Bullock

  Integrity, Patriotic, Firsts

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• Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

  Brian Eno

  Photography, Art, Philosophical

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• That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Interesting, Priorities

  "His Goal Was to Make It Simple to Use and a Joy to Look at. He Succeeded. The Result Was the iPod". Interview with David Derbyshire, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 19, 2005.

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• I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Perception, Stuff

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• Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Psychology

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Intelligence, Tools

  "Creative Evolution".

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• "The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Light

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• We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow some kind of merging with the truth. This is an idea, a thought that will keep you searching forever for some blissful experience that will last - no experience lasts. Who is watching this? Don't try to imagine it. You will only create another concept an imagined object and a lot frustration. Just be that. - and don't expect it to be wow experience...don't expect it to be anything.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Frustration

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• How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.

  Lottie Moon

  Jesus, Easter, Missionary

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.224, Mercer University Press

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• Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?

  Lottie Moon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.226, Mercer University Press

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• The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object Jesus, God and man, really present in the most holy Eucharist. The spirit of sacrifice, of humiliation, of scorn for self in the eyes of men, will be illuminated, supported and strengthened by the constant thought of Jesus, humiliated and despised in the Blessed Sacrament

  Pope John XXIII

  Jesus, Blessed, Eye

  Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.149, A&C Black

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• One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Science, Animal, Brain

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• He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.299, Courier Corporation

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• The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as subject, as an "I", to whom the whole world is Object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the Spirit of God.

  Emil Brunner

  Men, Doe, World

  "Dogmatics: The Christian doctrine of creation and redemption".

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• The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

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• The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

  Edouard Manet

  Spring, Broken, People

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• People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Recovery, Mean

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.59

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• With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Health, Exercise

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• The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Truth, Winning

  "What It Takes to Be Number One".

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• God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

  Rajneesh

  Depth, Miscellaneous

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• I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

  Johannes Kepler

  God, Believe, Ideas

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• Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bless, O Lord, all the people of this land.

  George Washington

  Jesus, Godly, Land

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• At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Art, Brain

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