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"From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review." »Isaac Asimov
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"One cannot review a bad book without showing off." »W. H. Auden
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"It is easier to be critical than correct." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." »Benjamin Disraeli, speech, January 24, 1860
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"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest." »Aesop
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"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts." »Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
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"Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking." »Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]
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"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
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"It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?" »Alan Perlis
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"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
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"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
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"When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history." »Arthur Koestler
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"All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?" »Russ Zandbergen
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