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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Leo Aikman

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

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Criticism

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. – Chinese Proverb

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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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