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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
William Ames
Creation
Action
Active
Virtually
Object
About
Conceived
Concerned
Because
Makes
Always
Which
Agent
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
William Ames
Today
God
Faith
Church
Other
Intervening
Those
Would
Object
Abraham
Given
Prophets
Absolutely
Without
Revealed
Were
Any
Which
Them
Then
Us
Help
Therefore
Even
Assent
Things
Necessary
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing
Great
Me
Important
Object
More
However
Than
Any
Far
Compass
Conscience
Preserve
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
Education
Reading
Thinking
Pupil
Object
Rather
Various
Lead
Mere
True
New
Render
Him
His
Than
Trains
Should
Copy
The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.
William Godwin
Thoughts
Mind
Free
Frame
Object
Lawless
Development
Steps
Equally
His
Than
Child
Should
Body
Flies
Less
Necessary
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
William Henry Hudson
Strange
Fear
Old
Approaching
Animals
Young
Classes
Object
Instinctive
Any
Them
Shrink
The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
Yves Behar
Home
Me
Rest
Tell
Object
Step
Talks
How
Am
Doing
Up
Where
Next
Next Step
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
Zaha Hadid
Fashion
You
Architecture
Space
Herself
Object
About
How
Person
Place
Places
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
Zahi Hawass
Culture
Single
Lost
Has-Been
Object
Civilization
Come
Piece
Material
Been
Found
Interpreted
Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.
Zhang Zhidong
Love
Government
Good
Loyalty
Strong
Protection
Opportunity
First
Become
Every
Consider
Our
Those
Wealthy
Embrace
Object
General
General Good
Imperial
Court
Hold
Which
Commonwealth
Us
Who
Display
Let Us
Reins
Every Opportunity
I don't think anyone would object to Facebook selling ads or having ads directed at me, as long as people didn't think those ads were manipulated by personal data.
Ro Khanna
Me
Facebook
People
Long
Think
Those
Would
Object
Directed
Data
Having
Ads
Were
Selling
Personal
Anyone
Manipulated
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
Arthur Bremer
Life
Smile
School
Pure
My Life
Saw
Laugh
All My Life
High
Dress
Minutes
Object
High School
Ten
More
Individuals
Withdrawal
Up
Times
Junior
Than
Junior High
Junior High School
Did
Fifteen
Fifteen Minutes
Then
Manner
Ridicule
Dozens
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Saying
Sometimes
Think
Paper
Object
Something
Prevent
Indiscreet
True
Ambassador
Anything
Function
Briefing
What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.
Martha Nussbaum
Life
Emotions
Focus
Distinguishes
Object
Common
Them
Bodily
View
Appetites
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
P. J. O'Rourke
Truth
Peace
Blame
Speak
Benefits
Power
Gone
Liberal
Corps
Some
Object
Reluctant
Joined
Journalism
Bailout
Robert
Mostly
Print
Subsidize
May
Africa
Being
Taxpayers
Should
Who
Grounds
Peace Corps
Elite
Careers
From the start of her leadership of the Conservative party in February 1975, Thatcher’s style seemed shrill and uncompromising, and she became an easy object of mockery. When she left office nearly 16 years later, she was a widely recognised, but clearly still highly controversial, figure.
Kwasi Kwarteng
Leadership
Conservative
Party
Style
Conservative Party
Later
Recognised
Easy
Object
Seemed
February
Uncompromising
Highly
Clearly
She
Became
Still
Years
Left
Mockery
Office
Controversial
Figure
Shrill
Her
Nearly
Start
Widely
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
You
Communication
Psychic
Language
Dance
Will
Whatever
Other
Photographer
Silent
Object
Between
Like
Call
Understood
Model
Being
Us
Each
Muse
The object is to win as many games possible.
Dave Martinez
Win
Possible
Object
Games
Many
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