"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else……" — Albert Einstein

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• To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves. — Paul Washer
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• A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its… — Alan Sokal
• Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits,… — Mike Mentzer
• As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that.… — Tatiana Maslany
• I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of… — Charles Darwin
• Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I… — Robertson Davies

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