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Melvin Maddocks

"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."

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Donna Grant

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"

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Donna Grant

"I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off."

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Donna Grant

"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval."

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Donna Grant

"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."

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Donna Grant

"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval."

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Donna Grant

"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."

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Donna Grant

"When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others."

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Donna Grant

"Those whose approval you seek most give you the least."

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Donna Grant

"I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything."

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Donna Grant

"Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval."

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Melvin Maddocks
"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."

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Melvin Maddocks
"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."

Truth

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Melvin Maddocks
"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."

Baseball

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Melvin Maddocks
"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."

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Melvin Maddocks
"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."

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Melvin Maddocks
"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."

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Melvin Maddocks
"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."

Art

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