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"Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art."
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"When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light."

"The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job."

"The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon."

"So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well."

"I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions."

"The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot."

"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals."
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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."

"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

"For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret."
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