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• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’

  Immanuel Kant

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• Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

  Bill Walsh

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• The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn’t are as much a part of golf as life itself.

  Gerald R. Ford

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• There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

  Sophocles

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• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  Samuel Johnson

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• I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

  Studs Terkel

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• Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

  Arnold Glasow

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• Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

  Socrates

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  If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

  Mother Teresa

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• Let us now praise Barack Obama.

  John Podhoretz

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• Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

  Thomas Ken

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• There’s no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

  Sharon Gless

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• Praise, like the devil.

  Sevendust

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• A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

  E. M. Forster

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• I’ve always heard people’s criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

  Sam Raimi

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• Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

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• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  Edmund Waller

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• There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

  Roger Ascham

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• Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

  Charley Pride

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