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| | *"Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting." - Emmit Fox | | *"Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting." - Emmit Fox |
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| − | *"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own." -Anonymous | + | *"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own." - Anonymous |
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| | *"Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." - [[Sam Rayburn]] | | *"Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." - [[Sam Rayburn]] |
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| | *"When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical." - Anonymous | | *"When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical." - Anonymous |
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| − | *"Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified, it is not criticism, learn from it." --Anonymous | + | *"Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified, it is not criticism, learn from it." - Anonymous |
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| | *"Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl." - Benjamin Jowett, English tutor and administrative reformer at the University of Oxford, a theologian, and Anglican cleric | | *"Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl." - Benjamin Jowett, English tutor and administrative reformer at the University of Oxford, a theologian, and Anglican cleric |