Critical Quotes

• The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

  Jim Fowler

  Nature, Thinking, Space

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• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  Alec Guinness

  Personality, Ego, Acting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

  Chuck Hagel

  Rights, Play, Democracy

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• Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Thinking, Government

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

  John Fowles

  Corny, Pretending, Duty

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

  Joyce Meyer

  Encouragement, Appreciation, People

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• Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Years, People, Done

  "BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR / ELIOT SPITZER / N.Y. attorney general ferrets out funds' abuses" by Pia Sarkar, www.sfgate.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

  Clarence Thomas

  Technology, World, Discrimination

  Clarence Thomas (1992). “Clarence Thomas -- Confronting the Future: Selections from the Senate Confirmation Hearings and Prior Speeches”, Gateway Books

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• I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

  Ted Strickland

  Education, Healthy, Connections

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• Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, People, Parent

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Positive Thinking, Criticism, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.24, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Innovation, Life Is, Illusion

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• We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.

  Marc Garneau

  Space, Safety, Roles

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• The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence
  beyond the reach of government.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, Silence, Constitution

  "Ullmann v. United States, 350 U.S. 422". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 26, 1956.

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• I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.

  Avi Arad

  Issues, People, Black

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• Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

  John Shimkus

  Country, Illinois, Keys

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• When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Causes, Size

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• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Hero, Eye, People

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Dec 20, 2010

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• The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

  Paul de Man

  Criticism, Would Be, Movement

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.164, Routledge

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• I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Land, Judgment, Stranger

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• People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

  Lionel Richie

  People, Looks, Feels

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• Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

  Ernest Mandel

  Self, Marxism

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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