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• I’m not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

  Cornel West

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticism, Believe, Person

• I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

  George C. Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Criticism, Assumption

• It’s everywhere, constant criticism of women’s appearance in magazines and online. It’s not easy to navigate.

  Shirley Manson

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  Tags in Easy, Criticism

• The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

  Clifford Geertz

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  Tags in Replace, Criticism, Research

• So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don’t really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don’t take it quite as well.

  Scott Hamilton

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  Tags in Criticism, Olympic

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Criticism

• Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.

  E. M. Forster

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  Tags in Criticism, Motto

• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Tags in Criticism, Friend

• Don’t abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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  Tags in Friends, Criticism

• Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

  Edmund Husserl

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  Tags in Philosophers, Criticism

• Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

  William Merritt Chase

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Criticism, Association

• You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

  Lena Dunham

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  Tags in Criticism, Sort

• If there’s criticism of my work that’s legitimate. I’m ready to hear of it.

  Edward Klein

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Criticism

• Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

  William Gilmore Simms

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  Tags in Criticism, Praise

• Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

  Charles Buxton

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  Tags in Silence, Criticism, Sometimes

• The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

  Charles Buxton

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  Tags in Criticism, Rule, Good

• It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

  Charles Baudelaire

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  Tags in Criticism, Born

• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

  Elbert Hubbard

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  Tags in Greatness, Criticism, Resentment

• Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

  Robert McChesney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hear, Criticism, Media

• I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn’t like blue.

  Cecil Beaton

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  Tags in Woman, Criticism