"I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements."

-- Paul Fry

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.”
“There's no one to stop you but yourself”
“Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.”

Source : "Year of global cooling". m.washingtontimes.com. December 19, 2007.
“The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.”
“For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line”

Source : "Ford Posts Massive Loss, to Announce 'Significant' Layoffs", www.foxnews.com. October 20, 2005.
“In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an athlete. The body must be used to determine its role in sport. 'My aim is to develop every individual according to his best potential, protect him from false ambition, the desire to be someone he never can be and, more important, never should be.'”
“Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.”

Source : "A Muscular Idealism" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2004.
“I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.”

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