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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. ↗

— Ken Burns

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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. ↗

— David Byrne

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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. ↗

— Lord Byron

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