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The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Clifford Geertz
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Clifford Geertz
American
Scientist
Born:
Aug 23
,
1926
Died:
Oct 30
,
2006
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How
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Anthropology
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Literary Criticism
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Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.
Tena Desae
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
Joyce Meyer
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
Criticism
Trouble
Saved
Ruined
Would
Rather
Most
Praise
Than
Us
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
Criticism
Pain
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Attention
Calls
Same
May
Human
Human Body
Unhealthy
Body
Agreeable
Function
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Necessary
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Frank A. Clark
Man
Rain
Criticism
Enough
Destroying
Like
Gentle
Without
His
Roots
Should
Nourish
Growth
Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
Travis Bradberry
Good
You
Welcome
Criticism
Insist
Leader
Good Leader
Way
Only
Remembering
Leaders
Questioning
Being
Requires
Your
Certainly
Reason
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden
You
Criticism
Weakness
Praise
Caught
Up
Get
Either
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee
Wisdom
Saying
Best
Man
Honesty
Honesty Is
Honest Man
Criticism
Met
Conviction
Trite
Policy
Real
The Best Policy
Just
Right
Honest
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Charles Stanley
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Challenge
Criticism
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Long
Faithful
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Too
Way
Stay
See
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Risk
Instead
Check
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