#objects

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. ↗

— Russell Baker

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I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. ↗

— Charles Eames

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Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

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The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. ↗

— David Ricardo

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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. ↗

— William Wilberforce

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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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