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• Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Views, Ideas, Common Sense

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

  Barney Frank

  Party, People, Political

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Michael Guerriero, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.

  John Dewey

  Giving, Mind, Quality

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.254, SIU Press

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• It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

  Al Pacino

  People, Worry, Way

  Source: members.tripod.com

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• I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Moving, Talking, Strange

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• I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Idols, Long, Performances

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Knives

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.111

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• I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

  Joan Blades

  Strong, Way, Election

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• The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birth Control, Birth

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.64, Routledge

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• It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Origin Of Life, Essence

  Charles Darwin (2003). “The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.452, Penguin

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• My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Selfish, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2591, Library of Alexandria

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• When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Brain, Answers

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• Jokes are unanswerable objections.

  Mason Cooley

  Jokes

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• To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Opportunity, Solitude, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.97

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• More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.

  William J. Brennan

  Executive Power, Answers, Levels

  "Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347, 353". Writing for the court, 1976.

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• We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Taken, Ideas, Soul

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad. But let your words and conduct be perfectly pure - such as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek. If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Mother, Two, Bed

  Letter to his son, Rutherford P. Hayes. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, February 26, 1875.

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• The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Player, Wind, Chiefs

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• What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hearing, Degrees, Relief

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• These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Play, Ideas

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• To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Scary, Historical

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• Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.

  Linda Colley

  Religious, Patriotic, Political

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• I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Men, Talking

  "In League with Alan Moore". Interview with Mark Askwith, www.locusmag.com. July 2003.

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• What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Effort, Principles, Kind

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Practice, England, Interest

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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