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I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. ↗

— David Maraniss

#am #arc #beginning #book #carry

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#itself #objectivity #passion #real #truth

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person. ↗

— James McBride

#best #best way #deal #even #find

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#felt #forces #necessary #nuclear #nuclear weapons

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#based #between #both #church #convictions

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation? ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#course #greece #greek #invasion #most

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#emotions #even #find #fine #horror

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#any #blanket #control #doomed #effort

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement. ↗

— Brent Musburger

#awards #carlos #i #make #object

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#blood #except #fire #force #forging