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"We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism."	Frank A. Clark
"Children have more need of models than of critics."	Carolyn Coats
"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."	Jackie Collins
"I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise."	Noel Coward
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm."	Denis Diderot
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."	Frank Herbert Dune
"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."	Albert Einstein
"The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."	Albert Einstein
"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."	George Eliot
"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are."	Henry Fielding
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do."	Benjamin Franklin
"Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter."	Lavina Christensen Fugal
"Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him."	Kahlil Gibran
"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all."	Lavina Goodell
"The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless."	William Franklin "Billy" Graham
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Eleanor Roosevelt	Elizabeth Harrison	Franklin P. Jones
Frank A. Clark	Frank Herbert	Frank Herbert Dune
George Eliot	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Fielding
Henry Louis Mencken	Honoré de Balzac	Howard Mumford Jones
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Johann Kepler	John Anthony Ciardi	John Kenneth Galbraith
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Lavina Goodell	Leonardo da Vinci	Lord Melbourne
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Micheál MacLiammóir	Noel Coward	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Phyllis McGinley	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Hofstadter	Robert Bridges	Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Sir Francis Bacon	Sir William Arthur	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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