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“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”

Giving Art Character Process Objects Wind Shapes Essentials Perception Definitions Delight East Boundaries Artistic Firm Outlines No Boundaries

Author:Vance Palmer

“To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.”

Ifs Needs Conditions Objects Wind Cost Percent Gun Europe Fruit Western Rate Arguing Bunch Combat Tanks Grapes Pentagon Rigor Purchasing Tactical Western Europe

Author:Dave Barry

“There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

“Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.”

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point”

Beautiful Three Nature Environment Tree Objects Wind Fine Dancing Ships Instance Sail Natural Environment

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.”

Objects Wind Aim This Life

Author:Milarepa

“To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.”

Knows Feels Should Writing Reason Body Age Objects Wind Bird Safety Wings Instinct Oneself Conviction Honestly Abundance Yield Compelling Feathers Daylight Seeming Migration

Book:A Naturalist's Life of New York

Source: A Naturalist's Life of New York

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.”

People Long Body Kids Felt Sun Crazy Objects Wind Periods Window Seasons Sick Observation Grandfather Filling My Grandfather Crazy People Filling Up Sick Kids

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.”