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What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

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Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ↗

— John Dewey

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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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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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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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