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• Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  May, Path, Steps

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Believe, Ideas

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2012.

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• At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Mistake, Independent, Law

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• I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Men, Law

  Commencement address at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 8 June 1978

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• It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Jobs, Emotional, Judging

  "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2009.

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• It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Objectivity, Color

  Foreword to booklet on interracial relations prepared by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The New York Times, June 22, 1964.

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• You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

  W. Clement Stone

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, One Love, Social

  Tom Stoppard (1984). “Tom Stoppard, Professional foul: notes”

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• One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

  Cal Thomas

  Hate, Objectivity, People

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• Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Long, Journalism, Reason

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, Race, Modern Journalism

  "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

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• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Reading, Government, Speech

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, C. David Crenna (1987). “Lifting the Shadow of War”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Hype, Political

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• I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

  J. C. Watts

  Christian, Prayer, Journey

  "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  A. N. Wilson

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "I'm Mr Evil". Interview with Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.

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• Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

  Donnie Yen

  Moving, Character, Talking

  "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

  Loretta Young

  Jobs, Actresses, Criticize

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• The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Beautiful, Structure, Amendments

  "The Nation Will Not Let Grameen Bank Be Snatched Away From Poor Women" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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• It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Writing, Energy

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• Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Writing, Views

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• Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding.

  Jose Saramago

  Dream, Law, Names

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• Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic...It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Mean

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• A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Humility

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.63, Westminster John Knox Press

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• If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.

  John Bytheway

  Love, Morning, School

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• Objectivity? I always have an objective.

  Jessica Mitford

  Objectivity

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