"As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults."
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"I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness."
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"When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable."
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"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment."
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"The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism."
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"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
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"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
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"Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak."
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"Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength."
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"It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism."
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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
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"Criticism is painful when it's not done with love."
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"Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry."
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"You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody."
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"The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism."
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"There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it."
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"I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough."
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"It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections."
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"The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times."
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"Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!"
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