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Objection Quotes (page 15)

Sylvia Plath quote: "You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all..."
You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time... Sylvia Plath
The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains. E. E. Cummings
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing.. Nicholas Sparks
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. C. S. Lewis
He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence. Jack London
H. L. Mencken quote: "The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us..."
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. H. L. Mencken
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too..."
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Kurt Vonnegut
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Thomas Paine
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time. Susan Sontag
No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties. Paul Goodman
George Eliot quote: "The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but..."
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. George Eliot
The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction. Jodi Picoult
The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn't like. So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the same thing. One of my lines in a column—in which a number of people thought I was insulting them personally—was that if Bush said the Earth was flat, the mainstream... Paul Krugman
Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice. P. G. Wodehouse

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