Quotes with fracture-critical

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  • Allan Bloom Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Donald Rumsfeld Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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  • Robert J. Mckain Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • Ben Goldacre Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • V. S. Pritchett The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Nolan Bushnell The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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  • Paul De Man The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • W. H. Auden The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • A. P. Herbert The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Andy Goldsworthy The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Bjork The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Sandra Day O'Connor The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
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  • George Eliot The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bruce Springsteen There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Burr There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from No, don't say that to Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens.
    Why Do I Do This?
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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