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• I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

  Betye Saar

  Art, Memories, Future

  Betye Saar, James Christen Steward, University of Michigan. Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art (2005). “Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment”, University of California Press

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• The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Phones, Cells

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• People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they ought to understand that God cannot be apprehended from without, as if he were an object, for with him there is no outside nor can the Creator be set side by side with the creature.

  Olivier Clement

  People, Use, Sides

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• Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Desire, Sexuality, Objects Of Desire

  "Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus". www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

  Bijou Phillips

  Treated, Humans

  Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.

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• I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.

  Ivor Cutler

  Kindness, Lying, Fall

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• We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies - and were important to the production of that object whether it’s our food or our clothes or our I-pads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Ipads, Clothes

  "Grace Lee Boggs in Conversation with Angela Davis". www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Building, Architect, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

  Lewis Hine

  Children, Work, Society

  Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Hate, Long, Soul

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• The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Success, Men, Purpose

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• At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

  Georges Bataille

  God, Men, Order

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• Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Fate, Destiny

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• The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

  William Hazlitt

  Beauty, Flames, Links

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

  Amiri Baraka

  Pain, Unseen, Torture

  Amiri Baraka (2016). “System of Dante's Hell”, p.158, Akashic Books

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• The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

  James Madison

  Happiness, Safety, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Fear, Cybernetics, Psychological

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.88, Penguin

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• We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reading, May, Saws

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.57

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• Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Fear, Selfish, Men

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• Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

  Averroes

  Conformity, Intellect

  Tahafut at-tahafut (ca. 1180)

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• The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Europe, Hatred, Brilliant

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 245, 1856.

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• But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Tyrants, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Individual

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.69, Modern Library

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• The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Christian, Support, United States

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• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mind, May, Wealth

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States”, p.88

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