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Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathematics. The object of mathematics is not, and cannot be, mathematical certainty. It is not even mathematical truth, certain or otherwise. It is, and must be, mathematical explanation.

Netscape, the object of protection in this case, had in market share what the government would call a monopoly until the Great Satan of Microsoft came along. Luckily for the consuming public those theories are just that - theories.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

If the rules are too demanding, they're going to be hard pressed to find a place to operate other than a desert. When you build a military base, somebody is going to lose their land, somebody is going to object because of noise. But if everybody gets a veto then you're not going to have any new military bases anywhere.

I didn't win the game. That's the object when you go out there. That's really all there is to say. I didn't win, and I didn't step up when I needed to.

I discovered a large object in his back pocket. When he pulled it out it was covered in paper, but I saw the plastic sticking out. I pulled it back and saw the marijuana.

If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis. We're going to have to get rid of ... ... A lot of classic children's literature is not going to be allowed to survive.

Sir, the object of the Flagg, which crossed the River, was to propose a cessation of hostilities for one hour for the purpose of entering into a negotiation for the surrender of Detroit.

So I object because of the fact that I?m not going to be able to compete on a fair basis.

Secure outside items, garbage cans, toys and anything else that could become a damaging object in the air. Anchor them securely or bring them indoors.

Senator Kerry denounces American action when other countries don't approve -- as if the whole object of our foreign policy were to please a few persistent critics,

She spent quite a bit of money. We can't exactly say how much, but certainly money was no object for Katie and Tom.

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

There are some attorneys out there that I object to what they do. But I don't object to you guys. I hope you pursue it more.

I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and startsfor the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.Then, someone at my side says;"There, she is gone!""Gone where?"Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.Her diminished size is in me, not in her.And just at the moment when someoneat my side says, "There, she is gone!"There are other eyes watching her coming,and other voices ready to take up the gladshout;"Here she comes!"And that is dying.

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.

I felt real good. The object was to come out here, test it out, do some things on it and see how it held up, and I did a pretty good job today. I'm not sore, so we'll see how tomorrow goes.

I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object - internal and external - without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego.

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

Because of this low gravity, we B612'ers talk about 'docking with' a near Earth object and not 'landing on' one.

because of the overwhelming evidence of official misconduct, deliberate fraud, and an attempt to suppress voter turnout by unlawful means. I felt the necessity, as do my colleagues from the Congressional Black Caucus and other members of the House of Representatives, to object to the kinds of errors against democracy ... that were permitted in the state of Florida.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.

He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact.

He was there. He heard our opinions. He did not object or defend himself.

The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth, the object being eventually to close it on something solid. But one should never close either mind or mouth until the general circumstances of the moment make it reasonable to do so.

(Joe) Clark managed to win, but then he blew it so quickly and became an object of scorn and derision, ... But because he lost and was out of it, they liked him, too. If you were a Conservative leader who won, different story. And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.

My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.

My object is to stop the guy with the ball before he gains another inch.

I was disappointed with getting the two quick fouls in the first quarter. As soon as I came back in, the object was to get the ball up the court.

Some groups, maybe religious groups, object to some programming that's on television and don't want to see it, but furthermore don't want to pay for it. I think the reality is that if you want to allow the development of new programming ideas and give start-up channels a chance to get out there and see if they're going to be successful, you need some mechanism to help get them going.

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

I will not waver from advocating policy that discourages expectations of higher core inflation. The object will always be to keep inflation at bay, so that the American business machine can keep on humming.

On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.

Otherwise the German media market will become an object of speculation for foreign financial sharks who will ruin the German media system.

It allows us to simulate ahead of time, planning without actually moving the object on site

I think that, with some notable exceptions, the community of scientists was excessively optimistic about how quickly imaging would have an impact on psychiatry. In their enthusiasm, people forgot that the human brain is the most complex object in the history of human inquiry, and it's not at all easy to see what's going wrong.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

It is huge going into the break getting a win against the best team in the league and then to come out today and beat a team that is below us in the standings, ... That is the object of the game to win games and make the playoffs.

Remembering whatever object one leaves the body at the end of life, one attains that object, O Arjuna, because of the constant thought of that object (one remembers that object at the end of life and achieves it).

Religion teaches you to try be able to stand up for what you believe in, even if other people don't agree with you, and that's important in science, ... That's happened on many number of occasions when that was a new idea in science and many people object to it and think it's crazy, especially if you're entering a new field. You have to think hard about 'Well, can you be right and if you're right be willing to differ with other people.'

Our view is that if the United States does not recognize that people have a right, under the U.N jurisprudence, to object to certain types of wars, then they can't go to the U.S for protection, they have to come to Canada.

Our visual representation of the world is much more impoverished than we would assume. People can be looking at something without being aware of it. Perception doesn't just involve looking at an object but attending to it.

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

It is a different and independent thing, and the character of the mental act only determines how much of the object is apprehended and in what form.

It appears that the county was the object of a grand scheme and a con,

I think it's going to be difficult for the president. Whatever political capital he thought he had last year is spent and, like the rest of the federal government, is in deficit. Amnesty, on a visceral level, most Americans object to.

I think it's an object lesson that paying the cost of Social Security in the future is going to depend upon economic growth. If you don't have growth, our pensions and other obligations are going to become unaffordable.

I thought that the object of a business was to be noncompetitive. I told my father I wanted a change. He said to me I would inherit the company, but I replied that I didn't ask for it.

We object to the overall premise that consumers are duped into installing our software. It's no different from what's on television. People are paying for this content by agreeing to some ads.

We object to these unilateral decisions by Tufts to put up a barricade.

Those comparisons are so ludicrously flattering that they are difficult to object to.

Thus the creation as well as the knowledge and the object of knowledge have been briefly described. Understanding this, My devotee attains Me.

To guarantee the safety of an object you are going to spend more money than you might expect.

The ANGEL approach has produced an LMS that's different. We've gained distinction for creating an appealing balance of simplicity and power. We've obsessed about how to improve both of these -- making the product even easier to use and yet more powerful. And we're especially pleased to have blended in features like our new Learning Object Repository and LIVE synchronous tools as core features to extend value unique in the industry.

The answer is that we have surveyed roughly half of the sky and found one object bigger than Pluto and two that are almost the size of Pluto. As we finish the other half of the sky we will almost certainly find a few more of around the same size and maybe one or two even larger.

Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

My body, an object destined to move other objects, is, then, a centre of action ; it cannot give birth to a representation.

We haven't heard directly from the team, ... We've had a lot of positive comments. Our object was to try to, for lack of a better term, legitimize use of public funds for a stadium.

Microsoft did not object to Compaq's inclusion of the Netscape Navigator icon on the Presario desktop. Microsoft in no way limits Compaq in its license agreements from including Netscape's icon.

Whoever makes me the sole object of their love, merges in me like a river in the ocean.

Who knows, in 100,000 years the emerging Grand Nebula in Cassiopeia may replace the fading Orion Nebula as a favorite object for amateur astronomers. In the meantime, I think it will be a favorite target for professional astronomers trying to solve the riddle of massive star formation.

We categorically object to most of the unedited report's content and conclusions as largely without merit and not based clearly in the facts.

We had very little time -- Bob and Felt in the garage together had very little time to have meetings and conversations in the course of a couple years. The object was to get as much information, as much context, as much certainty of things we had obtained elsewhere,

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,

There is a threat...This is the object of our intelligence (verification).

This species of bat has been observed capturing insects near the ground and vegetation, which suggests they have a wider repertoire of sonar-guided behavior than previously recognized. We thought the sonar strobe groups might be well suited to helping the bat distinguish a small object from the more complex background you would find in the wild.

We do give our pharmacists, where state law allows, the ability to step away from filling a prescription that they object to on moral grounds. However, if they do that they must refer that prescription to another pharmacist on duty.

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

We start with the object work, because the object is the first partner.

The exhibition really captures the essence of the Titanic story. It celebrates the conception and building of the largest moving object made by human hands at the time. It also celebrates the life at sea for the passengers -- the luxury of first class and the more cramped conditions of third class. Then, it sort of changes moods to that dramatic encounter with the iceberg.

There are many females of ability to whom the business of instructing children is highly acceptable; and who would devote all their faculties to their occupation. For they would have no higher pecuniary object to engage their attention; and their reputation as instructors they would consider as important.

The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establis

The real thumb can move in five types of way. We have managed to create a thumb that can mimic at least two of these like hold a ball, move the thumb and middle finger, as when unlocking the door or gripping an object like a hammer or microphone,

While search rates in a sparse display are determined by the number of objects, search rates in clutter are also affected by the number of object parts.

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

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 respectfully object to the committee's broad request for all information concerning all persons who have contributed or pledged more than $5,000 to the foundation. There are serious and substantial legal, precedential and public policy issues raised by this catch-all request.

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

We strongly object on a moral level to the destruction of human beings at any stage of development for research.

We strongly object to this matter coming up tomorrow or the next day or any day in which our young men and women in the military are in harm's way,

Throughout a lot of the black community, he was an object of derision and scorn because of the way Ali treated him. It was cruel.

We know what the West Indies are capable of. We are not looking at the rankings. The object is to develop what we think will be a good unit in the future.

And this will be a very delicate task because, of course, again we are moving a very massive object and we are moving against this station.

What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith.

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

When you pick it up you realize that you are the first person to touch that object since someone left it there 800 years ago.

I shall fully describe the object of knowledge, knowing which one attains immortality.

At the interoperability session, we will be showing a browser helper object that works with Microsoft Explorer as a plug-in.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same.

The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.