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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham and believe whatever is revealed from God though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son and therefore believed notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

I say to mankind Be not curious about God. For I who am curious about each am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object yet understand God not in the least.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively I do not believe but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation woman the object of our lust.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

An expectation is a future object recognised as belonging to me.

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

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

Never fight an inanimate object.