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• Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

  Adam Levine

  People, Statistics, Normal

  "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex". Book by Judith Levine, 2003.

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• It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.

  Kathleen Raine

  Imagination, Purpose, Records

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• Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.

  Bhikkhu Bodhi

  Heart, Reality, Personal Opinions

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• whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.

  Bernie Glassman

  Change, Judgment

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• In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.

  Ed Murray

  Character, Views, Numbers

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• I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Opinion, Ignored, Reader

  "Tonys 2013 Q&A: 'Neil Patrick Harris is the god of awards show'". Interview with Charles McNulty, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2013.

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• A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

  Lucy Larcom

  Self, Kind, Consciousness

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• the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Source, Source Of Life, Universal

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• The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

  William Thomas Walsh

  Heart, Mind, Desire

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• When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

  Lisa Randall

  School, Math, Answers

  Interview in Discover magazine Vol. 27, No. 07, July 2006.

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• All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

  Carl L. Becker

  Writing, Historical, Mind

  "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers". Book by Carl L. Becker (Chapter II, pp. 43-44), 1932.

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• Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing companies such as Coca-Cola took a wisdom forged by years of experience; even then, there was a highly subjective element. A Berkshire stockholder once complained that there were no more franchises like Coca-Cola left. Munger tartly rebuked him. 'Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well two or three times, will make your family rich for life?

  Roger Lowenstein

  Simple, Years, Two

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• Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

  Taiye Selasi

  Sight, Class

  Taiye Selasi (2013). “Ghana Must Go: A Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.

  Elaine Equi

  Real, Past, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Two, Priorities, United

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.151

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• I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

  Will Arnett

  Thinking, Comedy, Should

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• The camera is as subjective as we are.

  Bertrand Russell

  Cameras

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.168, Routledge

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• I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

  Christopher Nolan

  Writing, Trying, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Judging, Merit

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• Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.

  Niels Bohr

  Independent, Judgement, Development

  Niels Bohr, Leon Rosenfeld (1999). “Collected works”

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• The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Strong, Thinking, Keys

  "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1972.

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• An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

  Robert Longo

  Artist, Intention, Viewers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're doing comedy, it is so subjective. What is funny to you is not funny to another person. What is dirty to you is not dirty to the other person. Comedy is one of those things you throw against the wall and see what sticks.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Wall, Dirty, Sticks

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Objectivity

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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