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• The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Ego, Quality

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• Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Self, Brain, Desire

  Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  John Shadegg

  Home, United States, Citizens

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• I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

  Cordell Hull

  Organization, Perfect, Goes On

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• The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Impossible, Photographer, Honest

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• I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.

  Zachary Taylor

  Country, Party, Enemy

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• In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

  Alberto Moravia

  Choices, Finals, May

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• I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.

  Duncan Campbell Scott

  Native American, Poetry, Body

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• I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and study them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists.

  Charles Hermite

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Significant Things, Feelings, World

  "The Non-Objective World: Suprematism" by Kazimir Malevich, 1927.

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• The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

  Thomas Nagel

  Expansion, Wake Up, World

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• You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

  Roger Martin

  Odds, Choices, Risk

  "The Big Lie of Strategic Planning". Article by Roger Martin, hbr.org. January - February 2014.

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• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Stupid, Expression, Order

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 1), 1938.

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• Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

  Lewis Thompson Preston

  Would Be, Poverty

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• In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

  Fred Hoyle

  Origin Of Life, Support, Earth

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

  David Deutsch

  May, Schemes, Cosmic

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• It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

  U. R. Ananthamurthy

  Notebook, Views, Essence

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• The objective of education is learning, not teaching

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Teaching

  Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg (2008). “Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track”, p.5, Pearson Prentice Hall

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• Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Thinking, Moral Fiber, Average

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.149, Oxford University Press

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• It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Miracle, Want

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• We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

  Michael Eisner

  Art, Money, Business

  "Michael Eisner: Monster, inc". www.independent.co.uk. December 07, 2003.

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• Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons with relevant scientific expertise should concentrate, with pride, on cool objective analysis, providing information to the public and decision-makers when it is found, but leaving the moral implications for later common consideration, or at most for summary inferential discussion.

  James Hansen

  Believe, Pride, Perspective

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• I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.

  Nora Johnson

  Dirty, Divorce, Doubt

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• I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results

  Milton Friedman

  Independent, Political, Important

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• Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.

  Bill Gross

  Order, Safety, Trying

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