#object

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ↗

— George S. Patton

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But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others. ↗

— Richard Perle

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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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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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