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• A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

  J. B. Priestley

  Husband, Women, Wife

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• A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!

  Jim Ferree

  Gratitude, Pyramids, People

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• I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't ever say anything bad about the group I'm in, cause every group is untouchable.' We can all criticize each other and engage in debate all we want.

  Kathy Griffin

  Say Anything, Climate, Groups

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• Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Think Of Me

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• Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Military, Dark

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• There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.

  Criss Jami

  Names, Differences, People

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• Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

  Scott Berkun

  Differences, Praise, Hallmark

  Scott Berkun (2011). “Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds”, p.38, BookBaby

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• You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing

  Mark Rippetoe

  Criticism, Definitions, Command

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• A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.

  Diane Dreher

  Attitude, People, Attention

  Diane Dreher (2000). “The Tao of Inner Peace: A Guide to Inner Peace”, Plume

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• If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

  Criss Jami

  Meaningful, Should, Explanation

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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• I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

  Winston Churchill

  America, Criticism, Tables

  "Churchill By Himself" by Ed. Langworth, p. 128, 2008.

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• I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Community, Foreign Policy, Critical

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• No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Ideas, Islam, Scrutinize

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• When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?

  Priscilla Presley

  Baby, Father, Vegas

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• Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.

  Justin Bieber

  Princess, Hey, Crowns

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Education, Stupid, Pride

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• Do not criticize any other martial arts or speak ill of others, as it will surely come back to you. The mountain does not laugh at the river because it is lowly, nor does the river speak ill of the mountain because it can not move.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Moving, Rivers

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• Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Dying, Fairs, Not Fair

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• You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They - they criticize what you say but they never give you credit for how loud you say it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hate, People, Giving

  "Stephen Colbert Enters the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2007.

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• Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.

  Johannes Brahms

  May, Royal, Highness

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• You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

  John French Sloan

  Smart, Fall, Sleep

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• When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

  Alan Kay

  Hate, Law, People

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• Republicans are always criticizing President Obama for using the teleprompter. Is that a big deal? After eight years of George Bush, I'm glad we have a president that can read.

  Jay Leno

  Eight, Years, President

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• There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "Ursula K. Le Guin talks about genres, gender, and broadening fiction". Interview with Michael Cunningham, electricliterature.com. April 2, 2016.

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