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• I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Self, Perfectionist, Driven

  "At War With Her Body / Author Marya Hornbacher chronicles unending struggle with eating disorders". Interview with Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. January 29, 1998.

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• In every circumstance, though the nation has liberated already and we have worked for the nation, or we have not, providing the foundation for critical thinking to the people is still important.

  Khem Veasna

  Thinking, People, Important

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• "For 46 years, we were engaged in a worldwide battle against communism". "During that time, there were countless heroes, who served in our nation's Armed Forces and played a critical role in America's triumph. These men and women, who sacrificed so much for so many, deserve to be awarded the Cold War Service Medal in recognized of their faithful service to their country and tireless defense of freedom around the world."

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, War, Hero

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• It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Children, Games, Parent

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• The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.

  Tom Flynn

  Children, Self Esteem, Mean

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• We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content.

  Patrick Collison

  Thinking, Stripes, Peers

  "Stripe Says It's Processing Payments For 'The Interview' In The Name Of Online Freedom" by Jillian D'Onfro, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• Many organizations have put off critical upgrades or new projects to make sure ICD-10 was survivable.

  Dick Taylor

  Organization, Projects, New Projects

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• As we have considered the critical need to strengthen families and homes, we have felt that the Lord would have us encourage His beloved daughters to cheerfully cleave to their covenants. When covenants are kept, families are strengthened.

  Linda K. Burton

  Daughter, Home, Needs

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• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  Kara Swisher

  Online, Spending, Ability

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• In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Self, Civilization

  David Brin, Matthew Woodring Stover (2013). “Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time”, p.48, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

  Billy Tauzin

  Country, New Orleans, Water

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• The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Rejection

  Massimo Pigliucci (2010). “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

  Valentino Rossi

  Positive Thinking, Tyres, Able

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

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• Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Political, Enemy

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy”, p.123, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Law, Creative

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Heart, Years

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• War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Saving Private Ryan

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  Walker Percy

  Discovery, May, Way

  Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”

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• I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Support Systems, Support, Knows

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• It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

  Roger Bannister

  Heart, Brain, Organs

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• When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .

  Beverly Engel

  Self Confidence, Self Worth, Accomplishment

  Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Giving, Political, Hammers

  "Commencement address, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts". June 8, 1958.

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• I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Governance allows organizations...t o use critical data to drive the organization.

  Dick Taylor

  Data, Organization, Use

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• Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

  W. H. Auden

  Mean, Pleasure, Guides

  1963 The Dyer's Hand,'Reading'.

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