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Before you criticize someone, you should walk
a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile
away from them, and you have their shoes.
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-Johnny Carson
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of
praising ourselves.
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-Will Durant
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In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is
usually kept out of the management of affairs, but is given a more or less
free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for
commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribes wrath and
scorn.
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-Eric Hoffer
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You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot
write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table,
though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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-Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell's
Life of Johnson, 1791
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*Seldom, if ever, do I
pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer
all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged
in little else in the course of the day and I would have no time for
constructive work.
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-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Letter from Birmingham City Jail,
April 16, 1963
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*It is only the completely
mediocre writer who never entertains any doubts on the value of his work.
The man of talent is always more severe with his own writing than any
outside critic could ever be.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to Channing Pollock (drama critic, author, and
playwright), June 8, 1941
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 2, "We The Living to The Fountainhead (1937-1943)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so
well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and
invent others.
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-Edith Wharton
Letter, 19 Nov 1907
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~A cynic is a man who
knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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-Lord Darlington, a character in Oscar Wilde's
Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
Act 3
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