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Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal. ↗

— John Poindexter

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No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. ↗

— James K. Polk

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