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• To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

  Christopher Alexander

  Men, Names, Roots

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.9, New York : Oxford University Press

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• Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

  Fred Allen

  Life, Men, Objectivity

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• I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

  Isabel Allende

  Stories, Sometimes, Journalist

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• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  A. R. Ammons

  Objectivity, Law, Judgement

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

  Dave Barry

  Objectivity, Literature, Littles

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• If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Objectivity, Literature, Moral

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• Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Strong, Evil, Moral

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• The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Action, Tradition

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at The Meeting with The Representatives of British Society, Including The Diplomatic Corps, Politicians, Academics and Business Leaders, w2.vatican.va. September 17, 2010.

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• Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Important, Employment

  "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress". www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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• In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Pride, Reality

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Needs, Pushing

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• If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Believe, School

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• In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Ambition, Essence, Feels

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• Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

  Elayne Boosler

  Wall, Two, Force

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Narrators, Unbiased

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• Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Self

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• One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Objectivity, Iraq, Doubt

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• Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Independent, Moon

  "A Consciousness-Based Science" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Men, World

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• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  Walter Cronkite

  Objectivity, Magazines, Opinion

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• Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Character, People

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• I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

  Nigel Dennis

  Notebook, Going Out, Want

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• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

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• In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

  Roger Ebert

  Objective Truth, Reactions, Should

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Agency, Internet

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