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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?' M. H. Abrams
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The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success Edmund Burke
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. Barack Obama
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If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions. Stephen Covey
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Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. Karl Menninger
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The governor has given me some criterion in terms of the kind of individual we're looking for, ... We've put together a very detailed questionnaire to gather info on each and every candidate, including public records, financial records, health records -- all of those kinds of things that you look at. Dick Cheney
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There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power. Greg Graffin
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I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks
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Let's be honest, what are we? Twelve and five? We've played 17 games. I think we ought to reserve those kind of judgments and statements to much later down the road. John Brady
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Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors. Ed Durkin
judgments shalt thou
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
judgments
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile. Aristotle
judgments unless
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance. Joanna Lumley
judgments seen soldiers
The soldiers are seen as a 'presence'. There are no judgments made, for sure, Roberto Benigni
judgments third until week
I probably won't make any judgments until the third week in March. Joe Girardi
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This is someone we've been pursuing for three years. It's one of the largest judgments we've received.
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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. Charles Caleb Colton
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon
vulgarity-is heartless littles
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness Caitlin Thomas
vulgarity dislike
Above all, I dislike vulgarity. Diane Kruger
vulgarity-is tragedy comedy
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. Barbara Stanwyck
vulgarity nations
... vulgarity has no nation. Arthur Miller
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So it's just not about, you know, vulgar nudity,
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. E. M. Forster
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. Cyril Connolly
vulgar frugality
Frugality is for the vulgar. Francois Rabelais
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. Friedrich Nietzsche
wisdom expectations looks
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Charles Dickens
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
wisdom next profit
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom ifs
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
wisdom age next
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Charles Simmons