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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. ↗

— Fred Allen

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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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