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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. -

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

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When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries. – Chinese Proverb

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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

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Criticism

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. – Proverb

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Criticism

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. – Bible

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. – William Blake

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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are. – Taylor Swift

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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. – Arthur Henderson

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Fear