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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#clear #come #complicated #fight #life

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#finding #insane #life #majority #object

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#believe #events #facts #historians #historical

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#books #imagination #literary #lover #object

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#both #creation #development #every #his

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results. ↗

— George P. Baker

#brought #choice #drama #eager #even

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ↗

— Russell Baker

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Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ↗

— Russell Baker

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

— Russell Baker

#goal #him #inanimate #man #objects

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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