I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.
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I must resist it [a rider on an appropriation bill] to the last extremity. I say, first, I object to the repeal of important legislation desig...
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
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There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.
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It's not that I object to people re-inventing the wheel; what gets to me is watching them re-invent the flat tire.
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I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it
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It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry.
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There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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