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“In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.”

Giving Book Real Age Duty Intellectual Tasks Criticism Critics Credit Honorable Rubbish Shameless Real Power

Book:A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton

Source: A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton

“Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.”

Ifs Knows Made Enough Government Today Names Media Information Duty Criticism Pressure Presses

Author:Walter Cronkite

“The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.”

Humans Duty Intellectual Criticism Appreciation Noble Factors Human Life Distinction Discontent Provocative Emergence

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate”

May Reason Light Duty Determination Criticism Representation Depreciate

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius

“Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.”

Motivational Pay Attention Duty Criticism Newspapers Triumph Nonsense Sincere

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature per se.”

Book Literature Students Duty Criticism Love Letter Literary Criticism

Author:Rob Nixon