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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.
The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making.
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.
Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.
I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our own.
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
It's incredibly hypocritical of Eddie to object to filming around my children, especially given how public he lives his life.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
All people of goodwill object to racial hatred. But no one cares that Billy Crystal darkened his skin to portray Sammy Davis Jr.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
I don't think any reasonable person would object to you, as the advertiser, having say in who and what you want to pair your ad with.
There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.
My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.