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• When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Males, Female

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• The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

  Adora Svitak

  Thinking, Age, Adults

  "12-year-old author: Don't say 'childish'" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2010.

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• And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

  Taylor Swift

  Want, Fine, Honestly

  "Five Questions with Taylor Swift". www.seventeen.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

  Mortimer Adler

  School, Errors, Judging

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• Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Criticism, Would Be, Circumstances

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• The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

  Michel Foucault

  Real, Independent, Fighting

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, p.41, The New Press

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• I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  "The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927" by Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, September 2, 2014.

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• I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Pain, Thinking, Understanding

  Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough (1991). “The journals of Sylvia Plath”

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• I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

  Virginia Satir

  Love You, Appreciate, Judging

  Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”

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• It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, Civilization

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• For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spirit

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.182, Tuttle Publishing

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• The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

  Rumi

  Faults, Spirit, Blame

  "Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master". Book by Timothy Freke, 2000.

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• Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Doors, Stories

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I also had to come tonight to apologize. If you need to go to Mexico to finish this process off, then I understand. I was wrong to criticize you for it or even imply that I had some kind of say in it. One of the greatest things about you is that in the end, you always make smart decisions. Can’t always say the same for myself. Whatever you need to do, I’ll support you.

  Richelle Mead

  Smart, Support You, Decision

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• Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Appreciation, Attitude

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• Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, Remember You, Remembers You

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• The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Laughing, World, Foxes

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• There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.

  Hannah Hart

  Mean, People, Faults

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• I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.

  Jesse Ventura

  Law, People, President

  "Jesse Ventura: You Give Me A Water Board, Dick Cheney And One Hour, And I'll Have Him Confess To The Sharon Tate Murders". "Larry King Live", crooksandliars.com. May 2009.

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• Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.

  Colin McGinn

  Mean, People, Important

  "Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason", billmoyers.com. June 30, 2006.

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• To those people (who criticize me), get off your a** and make a record.

  Amanda Marshall

  People, Records

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• I did not begin to talk about peace when my father died nor did I begin to criticize him at that point - I did this when I had him in front of me, I was one of his harshest criticizers and I never applauded his violence.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Violence, Died

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• What I criticize is the message that the United States is sending to the youth of the world - to those of us who invite people to leave the ways of violence and the drug trade, we are not given a visa but those that sell drugs and weapons, yes.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  People, Drug, World

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• That's the whole thing with Israel. When they do things and nobody is punishing them, not even criticizing them, then that will get them drunk of power to continue on growing up and doing whatever they do.

  Tamer Nafar

  Growing Up, Israel, Drunk

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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