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• I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

  Robbie Robertson

  Song, Thinking, Emotional

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• The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

  Bert Hellinger

  Joy, Goodness, Distress

  Bert Hellinger, Gabriele Ten Hövel (1999). “Acknowledging what is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger”, p.162, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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• The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

  Ashley Montagu

  Play, Mental Health, Ability

  Cited in: Thomas J. Sweeney (1989), 'Adlerian counseling: a practical approach for a new decade', p. 54, 1981.

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• Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Views, Color

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.161, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

  Lewis Thomas

  Animal, Cells, Essentials

  "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher". Book by Lewis Thomas, 1974.

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• One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.

  Rebecca West

  Running, Husband, Home

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present.

  Pope Francis

  Past, Judging, Difficult

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Educational, Political, Sound

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.

  Woody Allen

  People, Tragedy, Hollywood

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Commitment, Doe

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

  Megan McArdle

  Mistake, People, Care

  "Egotistical bias". www.theatlantic.com. June 12, 2008.

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• When I evaluate a candidate, one of the most important criteria is what I call “the first derivative.” Is this person learning? Is this candidate moving forward, or have they stagnated.

  Eric Sink

  Moving, Important, Firsts

  Eric Sink (2006). “Eric Sink on the Business of Software”, p.103, Apress

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• G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.

  Laszlo Bock

  Test Scores, Tests, Found

  "In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Essence, Choices, Oppression

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.

  Jody Heymann

  Mean, Together, Immigration

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Judgement, Losing

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 7

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• The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Data, Age

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• Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

  Gary L. Francione

  Racism, Links, Discrimination

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• Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Giving, Trying, World

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have been loyal to us, thus far, which is primarily our audience.

  Neil Cross

  Mean, People, Loyal

  Source: collider.com

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• What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

  Neri Oxman

  Thinking, Engineering, Design Process

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• I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Writing, Two, Worry

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Kids, Ugly, Thumbs

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• Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.

  Marva Dawn

  Mean, Worry, Effort

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