Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered."
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Objects
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Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere."
Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold"
Confucius
Philosopher
"The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied"
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"An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion."
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"It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you."
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"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."
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"What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?"
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"I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."
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"Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself."
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"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."
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"But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object."
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"Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it."
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"A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)"
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"Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object."
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"We have persistent objects, they're called files."
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"So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things."
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"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind."
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"The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object."
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"You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort."
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"Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness."
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"I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth."
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"The object of power is power."
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"I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels."
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