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• A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Government, Achievement, Independence

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• Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

  Benito Mussolini

  Religious, Men, Law

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• Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

  Edward Sapir

  Expression, World, Language

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind - to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it's no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Mind

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• Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Journey

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• Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Differences, People, Republic

  Extemporaneous remarks during the Meeting with the Leaders of Regions I and II, Mansion House, Baguio City, March 15, 1981.

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• Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

  Al Ries

  Marketing, Company, Ultimate

  Al Ries, Laura Ries (2009). “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Errors, Observers

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.7, Macmillan

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• You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ifs And, Narrative, Dictatorship

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1719, Random House

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• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Team, Reality, Morality

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• If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

  Tony Judt

  Political, Fraternity, Turns

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.93, Penguin

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• My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Opportunity, United States, Links

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• I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Party, Middle East

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• A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to surrender their rights to privacy. [He] has a huge number of documents that would be very harmful to the US government if they were made public.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Rights, Government, Numbers

  "About the Reuters article" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2013.

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• The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Suicide, Dream, America

  Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Reality, Order, People

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• The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Socialist Government, People, Black

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• Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Interesting, Objective Truth

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.4, Routledge

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• God’s purpose is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”2 That is fundamental to all we do. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that we find fascinating or become so consumed by mundane responsibilities that we lose sight of God’s objectives. As you consistently focus your life on the most basic principles, you will gain an understanding of what you are to do, and you will produce more fruit for the Lord and more happiness for yourself.

  Richard G. Scott

  Responsibility, Men, Sight

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• One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

  Warren Buffett

  Over You, Age, Problem

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• But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Powerful, Men, Objectivity

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• Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in mind? That master question is threefold: what, to whom, and how? Education research, under such a dispensation, becomes an adjunct of educational planning and design. It becomes design research in the sense that it explores possible ways in which educational objectives can be formulated and carried out in the light of cultural objectives and values in the broad.

  Jerome Bruner

  Educational, Light, Design

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