Top Objects Quotes
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
Eli Whitney
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Henri Poincare
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Lucan
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
John Schlesinger
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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
John Perry Barlow 
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Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
Levi Strauss
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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
Johannes Stark
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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max Beerbohm
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Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames
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The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget
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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Barney Frank
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave Barry
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