#object

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. ↗

— Robert Brault

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We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am. ↗

— Alan Ladd

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They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. ↗

— Roy Moore

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My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith. ↗

— James P. Moran

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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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