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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.
Planning
John Argenti

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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Churches
Brooks Atkinson

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literature
Gaston Bachelard

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Painters and Painting
Francis Bacon

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Goals
Russell (Wayne) Baker

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Prayer
Robert Brault

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This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.
Censorship
British Board of Film

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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Committees and Meetings
Heywood Broun

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Speakers and Speaking
Thomas Carlyle

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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Eyes
Thomas Carlyle

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Plays
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Temptation
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Love
Confucius

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The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Education
Mandell Creighton

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The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.
Vengeance
Delsarte

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After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
Research
Helene Deutsch

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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Familiarity
John Dryden

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
AIDS
Tryon Edwards

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Obsession
George Eliot

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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Will and Will Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
Goals
Ferdinand Foch

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Goals
Andre Gide

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it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
Obesity
Nikki Giovanni

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun