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• I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

  Richard Donner

  Views, Point Of View, Comment

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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, Color, America

  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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• Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Editing, Subjective, Ifs

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 150), 1986.

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• [In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth," "das Gesprach mit der Erde."

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  School, Science, Hands

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• Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

  Manuel Puig

  Narrators, Cameras, Literature

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• I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Views, Claims

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Firsts, Teach

  "The Soviet School of Chess". Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.

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• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  Laura Innes

  Acting, Objectives

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• It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, "objectivity," "truth," it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Truth, Science, Men

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

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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.

  Iraq, Doubt, Different

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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

  Literature, Littles, Topics

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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

  Law, Judgement, Principles

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

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• Transparency is the new objectivity.

  David Weinberger

  Transparency

  "Does journalism still require impartiality?" by Kellie Riordan, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2014.

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• How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data.

  Steven Weinberg

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Done, Insight, Delusion

  "The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivis" by Bernhard Poerksen, (p. 3), 2004.

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• What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Conventions, Given

  "Limited Inc". Book by Jacques Derrida, 1977.

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• Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

  Christie Hefner

  Topics, Economy, Intimate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Responsibility, Light, Modern Journalism

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.213, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

  Chris Hedges

  Essence, Promise, News

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.76, Nation Books

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• But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

  Eric Alterman

  Media, Play, People

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• [I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the principles of integrity and objectivity, with a complete rejection of all authority except that of fact.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Integrity, Science, Common Sense

  Joel Henry Hildebrand (1985). “Science in the Making”, Praeger Pub Text

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• The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

  John Carroll

  Analysis, Facts, Moral

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.65, Taylor & Francis

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• Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

  Lise Meitner

  Truth, Acceptance, Science

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• The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

  Jacques Monod

  Attitude, Fundamentals, Intention

  1970 Le Hasard et la Nece ssite .

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• Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Writing, Perfect, Biographies

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