#objects

The object of your desire is not an object. ↗

— Jack Gardner

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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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Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. ↗

— Peter Benchley

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. ↗

— John Burns

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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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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

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