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• I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

  Sol LeWitt

  Believe, Artist, Order

  Video Data Bank of Art Institute of Chicago, collection "On Art and Artists", 1992.

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• Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.

  Lyonel Feininger

  Air, Movement, Calm

  "Expressionism". P. 40. Book by Norbert Wolf and Uta Grosenick, 2004.

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• Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Avoided, Definite

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.213

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• So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.

  Celia Thaxter

  Love, Eye, Iron

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.24, Applewood Books

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• Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

  Max Euwe

  Sports, Games, Achievement

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• All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.

  Charles Hodge

  Children, Blood, Soul

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.545

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• Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

  Erich Gamma

  Design, Elements, Patterns

  Erich Gamma (2004). “Entwurfsmuster: Elemente wiederverwendbarer objektorientierter Software”, p.11, Pearson Deutschland GmbH

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• Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

  William Graham Sumner

  Hygiene, Organization, Indulge In

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.40, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.

  George Soros

  Lying, Economic History, Trends

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• The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Development, Life Is, Capable

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.7, e-artnow

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• The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.

  David Brock

  Character, Echoes, Media

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• Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Tired, Feet, Bed

  Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.147, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

  Philip Larkin

  Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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• A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

  Hayden Carruth

  Grateful, Expression, I Have Learned

  Hayden Carruth (1989). “Tell Me Again how the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, People

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• Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

  Democritus

  Beautiful, Ugly Things, Effort

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

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• Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

  Gorgias

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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• The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Teacher, Teaching

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• Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Block, Illustration, Class

  Tales of Mystery and Imagination The Murders in the Rue Morgue (p. 208)

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• If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

  John Zorn

  Art, Sound, Ifs

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• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Slavery

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• Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, Stronger, Negative

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• I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my bill that calls for a waiting period for each page of legislation. I will continue to object when Congress sticks special interest riders on bills in the dead of night! And if Congress refuses to obey its own rules, if Congress refuses to pass a budget, if Congress refuses to read the bills, then I say: Sweep the place clean. Limit their terms and send them home!

  Rand Paul

  Home, Fighting, Night

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• One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds.

  Kathy Acker

  Real, Believe, Tears

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• Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

  Robert Bresson

  Distance, Dark, Light

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