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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

William Wilberforce

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 urging the manufacture.

Henri Bergson

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Michel Foucault

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Pope Paul Vi

Found sounds are sounds like pots and pans, rice in milk jugs - things you can come up with to make music around the house with familiar objects.

Susan Morrison

No rocks or any other biological objects can be brought back (from Antarctica). They did have a small commissary there where I could buy things like T-shirts.

Scott Nutter

U.S. Strategic Command did not track any objects for re-entry.

Jeff Jones

Believe me, you heard every bit of that, ... You would hear winds ripping through the house. It was amazing. Every now and then, you'd hear objects that would bang off the side of the house.

Stephen Hill

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

All that I was and the woman I was becoming was savagely thrown away by three men. Three men that brutally assaulted me, not only with their bodies, but with foreign objects also.

Jane Doe

Her life becomes a testing ground for these objects. The objects then become testimonies, reports. They become an image of thinking about everyday decisions in a new way.

Trevor Smith

Most of the objects here are really quite simple and fit into the feeling of the room. It's a room that's meant to be lived in.

Patrice Nourissat

I want to create objects that reflect small moments of raw beauty in the natural world.

Tim Harding

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lucan

My mother said azaleas are like decorative objects -- you should move them at will. She had no compunction about moving a plant if it wasn't doing its job.

Signe Cann

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

Ashley Montague

This is a good move for Business Objects. With Mr. Schwarz, they have brought on an industry veteran who has experience in growing companies.

John Segrich

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman.

Sally Kempton

People think that you search based on objects. You think you're seeing everything, but you're really seeing very, very little.

Mary Bravo

I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the "ideas" of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

Will Cuppy

People can use the whole field of the lens to see objects.

Guoqiang Li

The images in the gallery are not intended as illustrations of mathematical facts. They more than fulfill their purpose if people see them and can feel some of the intriguing enchantment that a mathematician feels when exploring the mathematical objects.

Matthias Weber

This is the only such debris disk among the 33 sun-like stars we've studied in our project so far, and one of only five such objects known.

Michael Meyer

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

John Fowles

I've walked the halls and met for a few minutes with the treasurer. Nobody really objects as much as they don't get it. They look at me like 'What is she doing?' because it's out of the box.

Suanne Sines

It is really wonderful that we have so many original objects from Darwin's life — original field notebooks, private correspondence, manuscripts, cartoons that friends drew of him as a boy, the magnifying glass he took with him on the Beagle.

Christopher J. Raxworthy

This ring means that three objects are entangled. If you pick up any one of them, the other two will follow. However, if you cut one of them off, the other two will fall apart. There is something magic about this number of three.

Cheng Chin

For years, there was no direct evidence of the production of glass. Somebody was making it, but the only thing we had were museums full of glass objects.

Thilo Rehren

Psychologically speaking, to discover something mysterious in objects is a symptom of cerebral abnormality related to certain kinds of insanity.

Giorgio De Chirico

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?

Walker Percy

We expect the galaxy to harbor roughly 400,000 of these objects. This is four times as many as conventional radio pulsars.

Maura Mclaughlin

We've been observing gorillas for 10 years here, and we have two cases of them using detached objects as tools.

Thomas Breuer

Ceramic objects are some of the oldest human documents we have. Being a potter, I like to make reference to that in art.

Patricia Fay

It makes storing objects locally or on the Web essentially follow the same process.

Chris Le Tocq

There are other families of particles out there that can form massive compact objects.

Christopher Reynolds

It's very complex - P2P is very large objects, very long sessions, undocumented protocols, it's very demanding. Your average copy of Squid or Microsoft ISA is not capable of dealing with P2P.

Andrew Parker

Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.

Nicholas Johnson

We really enjoy finding wonderful objects that can be mounted as lamps.

Bob Winston

The gallery is fantastic. It's beautiful with a great collection of unusual objects.

Duncan Webb

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

Bernard Liautaud

It?s possible that some of the objects in our solar system actually formed around another star.

Scott Kenyon

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Le Corbusier

They have basically been theoretical objects.

Alexander Kashlinsky

A museum more than just an institution that houses objects. We took a look at how the museum uses its collection for educational purposes.

Jan Smith

Nobody objects to the building.

Paul Evans

With SIRTF you'll be able to fill in that population of most distant objects.

Anne Kinney

We're observing at wavelengths where the galaxy is more transparent, and we're bringing tens of millions of objects into the equation.

Robert Benjamin

We've got 200 years' worth of scientific discovery and equipment locked away in the basement. All those items - around 6,000 objects - will be put on display.

Alan Winter

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

Those are still religious objects.

Gary Laderman

Comparisons of different artists are a good way to get people to see the artists in a new way. It's a jolt. There's a lot of curiosity about these objects (from Allen's collection). Not many people have seen them.

Richard Andrews

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

What makes this different from forced-air heat is that we heat the objects that come into contact with the floor.

John Rose

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

The objects in the tomb don't necessarily date to the original tomb. The objects could be 200 to 400 years later than the original cutting of the tomb.

Kent Weeks

We found a way to give players a variety of games. The games are the same, the mathematics are the same, and the objects of the games are the same. But there is just a little variation.

Lee Skelley

Some people ask, why don't you let nature take it's course? My answer is that most of the injuries are caused by man-made objects or pets, and they are not natural.

Bev Shofstall

The mainstream opinion was that the Egyptians were importing it from Mesopotamia. In Egypt, we had only evidence that they were making it into artistic objects.

Thilo Rehren

We are the intersection of inanimate objects and people. If we don't find ways to invite and engage as many people as possible, then we have failed.

Michael Shapiro

A soldier may be a refugee if he objects to a war which violates fundamental human norms.

Jeffry House

He didn't want to collect objects that had an association with death.

Karol Wight

Back then, you did it yourself and we hope this encourages people to do the same. The nobleman's collection is not so much about the beauty of objects, but more about their sheer ingenuity. You can see he's responding to the ingenuity, responding to the intelligence.

Joaneath Spicer

There is really nothing else like it, and to see these 110 objects, you had to start before the sun set and have to go until right about sunrise.

Ralph Dumas

Business Objects is a company that is positioned in a growing market with a technology that is far and away the market leader, ... I am here to help kick start the company into hyper-growth.

John Schwarz

Gupta's work interests me because I think we share something in the sense that we have a belief in the language of our chosen materials and objects.

Tim Davies

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

We hope that the conference will attract attention to the state of these objects.

John Stubbs

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Russell Baker

The world in which we live is composed of many objects...

Karol Wojtyla

We were optimistic at the beginning that we would have mitigation for our fish and wildlife damages. But now the bottom line is that the Arkansas Wildlife Federation objects to the entire project.

Jim Wood

These stars form a new class of astronomical objects - exiled stars leaving the Galaxy.

Warren Brown

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Giorgio De Chirico

The objects are very beautiful and important in and of themselves, but also because of the story they tell.

David Silverman

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

The Dhammapada

It's the practicality of a lot of these objects that will surprise many people. They're works of art, but they were intended to be functional.

Diane De Grazia

Mr Getty had incredible taste. Not only for the beauty of objects but for desiring a collection that was as full chronologically as possible.

Karol Wight

We do have vandalism on occasion, but it's not a common occurrence. But when it happens, it's really tough. We're dealing with objects that are very difficult to get out.

Kent Carlson

With this hand, you can clutch objects such as a ball, ... you can move the thumb out to the side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key.

Paul Chappell

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

Jones Very

They were overpowered, they were not shot, they were killed by knives and other metal objects. Some of the Hausa shops and their houses were also burned.

Emeka Umeh

Americans need to know that their sneakers may be inspected but that objects the size of a car are waved on board.

Ed Markey