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• You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Ideas, Citizens

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• Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

  Bill Cosby

  Wise, Art, Easy

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• The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Prayer, Answers, Venture

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• [Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Government, Giving

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• Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Lying, Unique, Men

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Careers, Choices, Looks

  "12 Movie Stars Who Experienced Career Resurrections". www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Economy, Know How, Knows

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

  Tim Ferriss

  Real, People, Fields

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• It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

  George Harrison

  Politics, Easier

  Song: See Yourself

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• If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Enemy, Adages, You Choose

  Song: You're No Different

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• Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

  Joshua Jackson

  Ducks, Trilogies, Get Away

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

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• It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

  Bernard Lazare

  Biblical, Critical Analysis, Mind

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• You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Wind

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• Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Stupid, Writing, Self

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• I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their 'wisdom.' I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Believe, Helping Others

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• I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.

  Osman Baydemir

  People, Funeral, Apologizing

  "After the Hunger Strike" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Holocaust, Black

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• Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Order, Doe

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

  John Jay Chapman

  Society, New Testament, Testament

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• Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

  Robert Moses

  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City Address, www.crainsdetroit.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

  Steve Jobs

  Motivation, Belittle

  "16 Examples Of Steve Jobs Being A Huge Jerk" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

  Harold B. Lee

  Mean, Church, Weakness

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• Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mistake, Past, Optimism

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• Every man knows- you criticize a woman - that's it for sex for the next year.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Sex, Women, Years

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• Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

  Urijah Faber

  Mma, Imagination, Decision

  Urijah Faber, Tim Keown (2012). “The Laws of the Ring”, p.20, Harper Collins

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