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• I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Self, Musician, Growing

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• The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

  Ellie Goulding

  Praise, Humans, Human Beings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

  Joseph Nye

  World, Debate, Openness

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• It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Creativity, Winning

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.10, Penguin

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• If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Soul, Receiving, Prejudice

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• Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Investing, Today

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• It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Criticism, Phrases

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• ...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Attitude, People, Rude

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• Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us.

  Harriet Lerner

  Fear, Needs, World

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through the area at a critical time, that's one instance where a plume could destroy a whole species.

  Larry J. McKinney

  Oil, Tuna, Spawn

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• To arrive at the definition of the problem he must begin by finding the 'critical factor'. This is the element (or elements) in the situation that has to be changed before anything else can be changed, moved, acted upon.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Elements, Problem

  "The Practice of Management".

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• The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Humility, Men

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• It’s really critical to have your dream life in your mind so that you’re constantly adjusting and designing your business in such a way to accomplish it, because you could very easily be highly successful and not accomplish the lifestyle you really want to accomplish in your heart.

  Blake Roney

  Dream, Heart, Successful

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• Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new? Andrei Markovits has delivered the best answer yet, ranging across an astounding wealth of material from politics and culture. Uncouth Nation is a rare academic treat. Rigorous and analytical, the book is also a pleasure to read as it penetrates a critical issue of our time.

  Josef Joffe

  Book, Issues, Historical

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• Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

  Jimmy Wales

  Rights, Ideas, People

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• Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Teacher, Light, Lovers

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• Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the complex relationship between photographic representation and race, and adds new insight into the ways in which this one black community has figured in both the critical and public imaginations. Harlem Crossroads is a tour de force.

  Dawoud Bey

  Race, Imagination, Community

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• To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Arrows, Evil

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.131

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• I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Pain, Important

  "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear" by Toni Morrison, www.thenation.com. March 23, 2015.

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• The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

  Amy Goodman

  Media, Play, Climate

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.96, Haymarket Books

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• Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Animal, Air, Years

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• It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.

  Paul Hawken

  Humanity, Suffering, Earth

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• Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

  Peter Arnett

  Eye, Opportunity, Media

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• In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

  Susan Wiggs

  Book, Class, Elements

  Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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• My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Passion, Eye, Journey

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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