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Whether or not an object has a moon is not part of the criteria that we've considered, because so many small objects in the solar system have moons,

We found that a disproportionate amount of our resources go to line-slowing bag searches directed at objects that do not pose a real threat of taking control of an aircraft.

U.S. Strategic Command did not track any objects for re-entry.

With this hand you can clutch objects such as a ball, you can move the thumb out to one side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key, and you can wrap your fingers around an object in what we call the power grip - like the one you use when you hold a hammer or a microphone.

With this hand, you can clutch objects such as a ball, ... you can move the thumb out to the side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

What would you do if money was no object?

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Theology is a subject without an object

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

My main object in life is to see what will happen next.

there are no inanimate objects ...

Desire creates its own object.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are

We hope to discover a few more large objects in the outer solar system.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

When the objects were presented in a sparse array, search times to find the target were similar for displays composed of simple and complex objects. But when the same objects were presented as dense clutter, search functions were steeper for displays composed of complex objects.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

Most of the shining objects that our people see over Iran's airspace are American spying equipment used to spy on Iran's nuclear and military facilities,

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

Mr Getty had incredible taste. Not only for the beauty of objects but for desiring a collection that was as full chronologically as possible.

Men just aren't viewed as sex objects in the same way that women are. Women don't think about men being naked in the same way that men think about women.

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman

One attains peace in whose mind all desires enter without creating any disturbance, as river waters enter the full ocean without creating a disturbance. One who desires material objects is never peaceful.

One develops attachment to sense objects by thinking about sense objects. Desire for sense objects comes from attachment to sense objects, and anger comes from unfulfilled desires.

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.

Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing sensible to say to them. Haven't we learned in the last thousand years that the more we confront objects with the reflection of their appearance, the more silent they become?

Pleasures derived from the contact of senses with their objects are verily the source of misery, and have a beginning and an end.

Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

I don't believe we should classify planetary objects by location. We should use properties of the objects as a guide.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

Ceramic objects are some of the oldest human documents we have. Being a potter, I like to make reference to that in art.

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Business Objects is a company that is positioned in a growing market with a technology that is far and away the market leader, ... I am here to help kick start the company into hyper-growth.

Basically, the idea is doing beautiful objects that you put together, ... So a lot of freedom -- in fact, we call it surplus because the idea is mixing materials, embroidery, sporty things.

I can't predict what that value might be, but it is fantastically interesting to me to have a chance, maybe within my lifetime, for scientists to see up-close what those objects look like and to begin our reconnaissance of that region of space.

If any of the bright objects come close, they will definitely meet our fire. We possess the necessary equipment to confront them,

Giving cash rewards is one of the least-effective means of motivating employees. While money may induce short-term involvement, it does not create motivation for the long term. Merchandise has a residual value over cash because the objects serve as reminders.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

What makes this different from forced-air heat is that we heat the objects that come into contact with the floor.

We're observing at wavelengths where the galaxy is more transparent, and we're bringing tens of millions of objects into the equation.

We think demand for arts and crafts furniture and objects and 20th century decorative arts and stylish things are going to continue to be very much in demand and with that in view we will be holding a special sale of these items on February 28.

We are finally starting to see the remnants of some of the oldest objects in the universe.

Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .

Her life becomes a testing ground for these objects. The objects then become testimonies, reports. They become an image of thinking about everyday decisions in a new way.

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

Humans do a rough categorization of objects very quickly. For instance, in just a tenth of a second, we can recognize whether something we see is an animal or not. Our results show that this immediate, rough impression probably depends on recognizing just one or more individual parts of what we see. Fine discriminations such as recognizing individual faces take longer to happen, and our study suggests that this delay depends upon emerging signals for combinations of shape fragments. In a sense, the brain has to construct an internal representation of an object from disparate pieces.

He didn't want to collect objects that had an association with death.

Like objects in the rear-view mirror, the impact of Social Security's looming crisis is closer than it appears.

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

My mother said azaleas are like decorative objects -- you should move them at will. She had no compunction about moving a plant if it wasn't doing its job.

I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.

It is fantastically interesting to me to have a chance, maybe within my lifetime, for scientists to see up-close what those objects look like and to begin our reconnaissance of that region of space.

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

That was somewhat surprising because ground-based observers had been trying for more than a decade to find new satellites around Pluto. But I felt almost certain even when I first saw them that they were real objects not any sort of artifact and that they were exhibiting orbital motion around Pluto.

Most of the objects here are really quite simple and fit into the feeling of the room. It's a room that's meant to be lived in.

We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program,

We are the intersection of inanimate objects and people. If we don't find ways to invite and engage as many people as possible, then we have failed.

We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and the satisfaction come from using the objects to glean an understanding of a culture and a society so many years ago.

We've discovered a new class of object, and we need to use Spitzer to measure the infrared spectra of a lot more of these objects to learn how unique they really are.

Today, the voters of Wisconsin sent a clear message. The message is this -- objects in your mirror may be closer than they appear, ... They want a debate. They want this campaign to continue. They want someone who will stand up and fight for them.

Three days later, the two objects were still there, and they were moving counterclockwise around Pluto, ... It made for a convincing case.

We found a way to give players a variety of games. The games are the same, the mathematics are the same, and the objects of the games are the same. But there is just a little variation.

We know of 17 objects that could be called planets, most of which are ice dwarfs. So Pluto is typical of what is probably the most populous type of planet in our solar system. It probably mimics other Kuiper Belt objects.

Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left for their own thoughts, can feel no respect for themselves, and learn little consideration for humanity.

We are dealing with water 250 feet deep and recovering and locating small objects ... is a daunting effort.

We're living in a time when everyone is so certain ... to me, it's OK not to have the answers. The argument of the movie is, 'Is it possible?' And I did a lot of reading about these things and I don't know the answer. What do you do with objects moving in rooms? People speaking languages that they don't know? Animals appearing out of nowhere?

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.