The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer
I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
Benjamin Franklin
The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.
John Ruskin
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Blaise Pascal
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
Sigmund Freud
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
Besides being extremely close to Earth, this object is a T dwarf - a very cool brown dwarf - and the only such object found as a companion to a low-mass star. It is also likely the brightest known object of its temperature because it is so close.
Beth Biller
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Joel Hawes
I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
Alfred Stieglitz
We are imaging a moving object. Unlike the arm that you could hold still or some other part of the anatomy, the heart is in constant motion.
Tom Morgan
What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?
John Szabo
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
John Churton Collins
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.
James Agate
The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production.
Marc Newson
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.
Anne Bradstreet
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
P.t. Barnum
The studio just wanted us to throw in something as a tease. I didn't object.
David Zucker
The object of the game is to maintain healthy or low levels of cholesterol in your heart.
John Blanchette
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
We start with the object work, because the object is the first partner.
Daniel Stein
To some in our groups, he has become an object of deep affection.
Jaime Watt
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
Minor White
I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object - internal and external-without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego.
Melanie Klein
There still could be some groups of people that would object to (our method) because at one time the cells were derived from a very early human embryo.
Kevin Eggan
It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue.
Philip Pullman
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
Sir Robert Baden powell
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin
Because of this low gravity, we B612'ers talk about 'docking with' a near Earth object and not 'landing on' one.
Russell Schweickart
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Henry Fuseli
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Sir, the object of the Flagg, which crossed the River, was to propose a cessation of hostilities for one hour for the purpose of entering into a negotiation for the surrender of Detroit.
William Hull
We strongly object on a moral level to the destruction of human beings at any stage of development for research.
Dennis Poust
I'm like an object lesson. I'm a poster child for maybe where they should go. I'm holding out my hand.
Gerald Levin
I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.
Coleman Young
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman
I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.
Robert S. McNamara
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean Genet
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.
Donald Davidson
Unless money is no object, I'd rather buy five $1,000 mattresses and change them every few years than buy one $5,000 mattress.
Alan Hedge
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
The one-object rule has been around for 155 years.
Sen. Kenneth Cuccinelli
I was disappointed with getting the two quick fouls in the first quarter. As soon as I came back in, the object was to get the ball up the court.
Demetrius Porter
Tommy is a moving object, so when we do find him we'll arrest him. We will also arrest those who try to get in the way of his arrest.
Saleh Saaf
The strobe object was reported to be about 30-50 feet in diameter.
Peter Geremia
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
Pierre De Coubertin
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
William Gilmore Simms
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Thomas Arnold
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.
Howard Zinn
Eventually you get to the point where you won't be able to grip anything. Your ability to grip an object depends very much on the thumb — the thumb is the most powerful of the digits, so when movement of the thumb becomes painful you can't hold on to things.
Alan Hedge
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
Frederick W. Taylor
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.
Paul Cezanne
That just seems to me way too intrusive. It seems to me a kind of vigilantism that I very much object to.
Stephan Thernstrom
Never fight an inanimate object.
P. J. O'Rourke
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
John Stuart Mill
The real thumb can move in five types of way. We have managed to create a thumb that can mimic at least two of these like hold a ball, move the thumb and middle finger, as when unlocking the door or gripping an object like a hammer or microphone.
Paul Chappell
He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact.
Dean Gilmour
The changes to make Linux accessible on the desktop will be in the user interfaces of things like Gnome (Gnu Network Object Model Environment) and KDE (K Desktop Environment), rather than in anything we do.
Lance Davis
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne
It is understandable that an agency like FAO could be, in some people's minds, an object of protest.
Nick Parsons
The flight commander on board the aircraft reported hitting an object on the takeoff run, ... aborted takeoff.
James Boyd
It struck some object under the bridge. The mast broke off at the base.
Stephen Mcinerny
I was devastated. He called me and told me he found a foreign object lodged in Burt's intestines. He told me he had to operate ... that Burt was going to die. I told him I was going to come over.
Raymond Reid
The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a profession that is the same for all.
Irving R. Kaufman
We categorically object to most of the unedited report's content and conclusions as largely without merit and not based clearly in the facts.
Kevin Moley
It wasn't a pretty game, but that makes no difference at this point. Whether you win by one or 21, the object is to win and keep playing.
Daniel Jenkins
Upon our arrival, we were told by (emergency medical technicians) that Carmicheal received blunt force trauma to the head. They apparently beat, kicked and hit him with an object.
Robert Winn
It's the thrill of the chase -- the research, the excitement of finding the next thing, the better object. Often, the hunt matters more than the object itself.
Lynda Cain
We're not objecting to the sewer lines.
Richard Swanson
He kind of has his own drummer. He doesn't object to being viewed as someone standing out there by himself.
Susan Gill
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz
Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St.
Augustine Of Hippo
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Pliny the Younger
It's a deep, irregular cut and it was cut by some sharp, jagged object ... a jagged piece of glass or a knife. My opinion is it was most likely broken glass.
Michael Baden
You don't need a big object. Something the size of a golf ball, a baseball, or even a basketball could look as big as a jeep or flaming bus.
Jack Horkheimer
The best way to measure gravity it to drop an object in space and watch its trajectory.
Michael Watkins
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith
It's just the best way to start your day. People who surf, they know the object is to have fun. You work hard, but you work hard to have fun.
Cynthia Derosier
It is huge going into the break getting a win against the best team in the league and then to come out today and beat a team that is below us in the standings, ... That is the object of the game to win games and make the playoffs.
Clint Mathis
Instead of lecturing, I like to basically have them ask me questions, and I'll answer anything they want to know. Like what's the basic play of hockey? What's the object of the game? It's to create a two-on-one on the ice.
Chuck Kaiton
Throughout a lot of the black community, he was an object of derision and scorn because of the way Ali treated him. It was cruel.
Thomas Hauser
So far, as far as we know Wild 2 is a unique object.
Donald Brownlee
This object is the runt of the star formation family.
Tyler Bourke
Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
Ashleigh Brilliant
No longer will we be an object of fascination for others, who would consider us a strange and an estranged segment of humanity.
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
A lot of people get around with canes and dogs, ... I've always been a dog lover, and to pick between an inanimate object like a cane and a dog, there was no question in my mind.
Claire Gilbert
I like to object or get objected to and win. But, this is not about winning all the time. You can't win every time. You have to be able to keep going and not let it get you down.
Brad Matherne
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
Wallace Stevens
We've discovered a new class of object, and we need to use Spitzer to measure the infrared spectra of a lot more of these objects to learn how unique they really are.
Joel Kastner
This is a very scientifically interesting object. It's not just a pretty picture.
Jeff Hester
In a few seconds, you can transform a two-dimensional sheet of acrylic into a three-dimensional object.
Neil Gershenfeld
We know what the West Indies are capable of. We are not looking at the rankings. The object is to develop what we think will be a good unit in the future.
Andy Pycroft
That's the Tank Dog. The Big Tank. The immovable object, running people over, bowling them over.
Hollis Thomas
The mother, being so holy, could possibly be object of an attack by Satan.
Henry D'souza
(Joe) Clark managed to win, but then he blew it so quickly and became an object of scorn and derision, ... But because he lost and was out of it, they liked him, too. If you were a Conservative leader who won, different story. And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
Brian Mulroney
Each object had to transcend the outcome of the equation of its form and function by displaying meaning -- to an individual, to a community, to the world at large -- and last but not least, ingenious beauty.
Paola Antonelli
Those comparisons are so ludicrously flattering that they are difficult to object to.
James Hunter
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
W. S. Gilbert
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
I object to being characterized the way I have been characterized by people who don't have a clue as to who I am as a human being or who I am as a commander.
Robert Clark
We object to these unilateral decisions by Tufts to put up a barricade.
Richard Parker
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James Polk
We did not object to the court not issuing a default warrant for him.
David Procopio
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.
Joyce Cary
It allows us to simulate ahead of time, planning without actually moving the object on site.
Bill Stone
The changes are needed ? we can't risk that happening again. The people who object to this new format may not come back. But hopefully they'll understand.
Jim Mchugh
We object strongly to the current LDP executives' way of doing things. We cannot quietly sit and wait when they are now backing candidates to run against us as assassins.
Tamisuke Watanuki
The object was to get to (Allen) early and he kind of got rattled a little bit.
James Cotton
They put it in a fashion show, as if to make the car seem like a sex object. And at the end of the day, it's just a car.
Dan Curran
So I object because of the fact that I?m not going to be able to compete on a fair basis.
Brian Fitzgerald
I can't see why anyone would disagree with this. If they do, they either object directly to any teaching about the Bible or they have a political agenda they haven't made public yet.
Doug Stoner
We had very little time -- Bob and Felt in the garage together had very little time to have meetings and conversations in the course of a couple years. The object was to get as much information, as much context, as much certainty of things we had obtained elsewhere.
Carl Bernstein
At the interoperability session, we will be showing a browser helper object that works with Microsoft Explorer as a plug-in.
Lorrie Cranor
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Lord William Beveridge
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
The object was lodged in the window and cracked it.
Margi Nanney
She had a stab wound on her right back and on the abdomen and a bruise caused by a hard object on her neck.
Dr. Owen Lebaquin
It's in our blood to just go out and try and get a cod for supper, ... We were objecting to taking away our culture and our rights.
Daniel Baldwin
We would very strenuously object if they were to kill them.
David Crawford
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
I don't have any objections to playing for them, none at all. It's exciting for me to know that. I'm not objecting to it, so it'd be exciting to play for the Texans.
Reggie Bush
One of the overriding criteria for including an object in the show was the quality of its craftsmanship, ... As long as the quality of design and the quality of production were high, it was an Arts and Crafts object.
Karen Livingstone
It's always exciting to find a new object in the solar system. This gives us further support that a giant collision took place at the beginning of the solar system.
Hal Weaver
That means, that in the end the disk became a cult object.
Harald Meller
It's possible they were formed by some object getting tossed in too close to Saturn and it got torn apart by gravity.
Ben Zuckerman
The object has not been co-operative at all. It is an incredibly nasty place to land.
Andy Cheng
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The object of putting a lot of pressure on the ball is to hopefully wear a lot of teams down.
Jamie Beaudoin
The tribunal did not object to us doing this, also.
David Scheffer
We've identified a new type of object that by the shape of its orbit is definitely a main-belt asteroid, but by its appearance is definitely a comet. It fits into both categories.
David Jewitt
It's not the idea of historical preservation we object to; it's the ordinance and the raw power it creates.
Dan Richardson
I thought that the object of a business was to be noncompetitive. I told my father I wanted a change. He said to me I would inherit the company, but I replied that I didn't ask for it.
Robert Sandelman
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Robert Brault
My contribution to this whole thing is I was the first DJ to take an inanimate object called the turntable and play it like it was an instrument.
Grandmaster Flash
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
Georges Braque
This is truly a significant object.
Richard Ellis
When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.
John Gates
The object is to learn how to deaden the ball. We're not so much concerned with manipulating it line to line as much as we are just killing the ball.
Doug Mansolino
It turns out that almost everything you see in the sky emits X-rays as well, so you can learn a lot about an object by taking X-ray images.
Mark Bautz
Although it depends very much on how an object is presented and interpreted, it is conceivable that some people may interpret air-sickness bags in an artistic way.
Greg Thomas
The object, of course, is to try and get the three athletes there who have the best chance of winning medals, and I'm sure the international committee took that into consideration.
Ron Hershberger
They are the mystery object actually in the film, there are different levels, different kinds.
Jennifer Rubin
There are many females of ability to whom the business of instructing children is highly acceptable; and who would devote all their faculties to their occupation. For they would have no higher pecuniary object to engage their attention; and their reputation as instructors they would consider as important.
Emma Willard
For example, before, they couldn't grab an object like a rattle. Now they can.
Elizabeth Cohen
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Elizabeth Blackwell
I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.
Ellen Thorsen
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
Eduard Hanslick
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Dijkstra
A new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.
Edmond de Goncourt
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