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"I don't take criticism lying down."
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"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."
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"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."
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"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."
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"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
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"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."
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"Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised."
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
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"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"
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"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
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"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
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"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
People
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
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"The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names."
War
"By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"
Thought
"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
Opinion
"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
Leadership
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
War
"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
Leadership
"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
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