#bj

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction. ↗

— John le Carre

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We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. ↗

— Howard Carter

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

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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

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A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

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