Quote by Leo Aikman
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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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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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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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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Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had. – Carlos Ghosn

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