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He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.

Neil Gaiman

Men, Guests, Unexpected

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.15, Harper Collins

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Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

Anais Nin

Zoos, Wall, Eye

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That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

Julian Barnes

Order, Needs, Facts

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Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.

Guy Debord

Order, Organization, People

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Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

Dorothy L. Sayers

Blessing, Reality, Personality

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I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

Julian Barnes

Memories, Lying, Pulse

"The Sense of an Ending". Book by Julian Barnes (Page 122), www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

Napoleon Hill

Taken, Mind, Genius

Napoleon Hill (1993). “Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards”, p.4, Penguin

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No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient intent, but they are, in their fundamental nature, arbitrary and exist solely as a convenient construct in the minds of man. Lives are messy, and when we set out to relate them, or parts of them, we cannot ever discern precise and objective moments when any given event began. All beginnings are arbitrary.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Men, Mind, Events

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But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.

Susanna Kaysen

Suicide, Years, Would Be

Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.38, Vintage

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Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

Order, Names, Knowing

Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Carl von Clausewitz

Men, Giving, Intellectual

Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.193, Princeton University Press

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Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.

Rachel Caine

Military, Honey, Claire

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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

C. S. Lewis

Ideas, Slavery, Belief

C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dark, Men, Racism

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail". www.africa.upenn.edu. April 16, 1963.

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I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

Leonard Nimoy

Sympathy, Heart, Doctors

"Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men the road trip on the way to the destination is often the most fun.
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Sherry Argov

Fun, Men, Way

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What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.

Chinua Achebe

Children, Book, Prose Poetry

Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.44, Penguin

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Crouched on the roof between BEx and Liz, I wasn't a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend; I looked at my watch and check my gear instead of crying. I had a mission objective and not a broken heart.

Ally Carter

Girl, Heart, Broken

Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.162, Hachette UK

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There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Max Brooks

Giving, Way, Facts

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Subjectivity is objective.

Woody Allen

Subjectivity

Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

Alison Bechdel

Beautiful, Girl, Falling In Love

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

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So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it.

Mahmoud Reda

Dance, Artist, Goal

Interview with Carolina Varga Dinicu, www.casbahdance.org. June 19, 2003.

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

Ed Bliss

Failure, Mean, Absence

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The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.

Herman Lee Donovan

Freedom, Believe, Citizenship

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