#bj

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #expense #fame #few #fruition

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#affairs #am #concern #convinced #englishman

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

— Richard Donner

#been #comments #i #narrow #objective

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work. ↗

— Richard Donner

#film #like #long #make #narrow-minded

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#came #go #i #i came #nowhere

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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All objects lose by too familiar a view. ↗

— John Dryden

#lose #objects #too #view

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. ↗

— William Bligh

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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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