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Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Anybody Become Citizen Citizens Citizenship Criterion Even Five Israeli Jewish Percent Qualify Religion Twenty You

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It's silly to have a prototype, because one inevitably falls for someone unexpected. My only criterion is she shouldn't just look nice; she must have a personality, too.

~Arjun Kapoor

Topics: Because Criterion Falls Inevitably Just Look Must Nice Only Personality Prototype She Silly Someone Too Unexpected

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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

~Barack Obama

Topics: African-American Criterion Disabled Empathy Gay Got Heart Judges Like Mom Need Old Poor Recognize Selecting Somebody Teenage Understand Which Young

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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

~Carl Rogers

Topics: Achievements Believe Contrary Criterion Directly He Held Implications Learning Meets Order See Significant Some Student Teacher Testing Therapy I Believe I Believe That

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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Also Among Causes Criterion Distinguish Effects Ends How Know May Means Which

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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Building Cannot Central Criterion First Know Life Man Must Name Named Objective Precise Quality Root Seek Spirit Timeless Town Way Which Wilderness Without

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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

~Denis Waitley

Topics: Aptitude Attitude Birth Criterion Edge Gifted High Success Talent Winner Iq

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Speaking to the coach has been my number-one criterion at every club I've played for to find out what he expects from me, how he will make me improve, and that he'll play me.

~Dimitri Payet

Topics: Been Club Coach Criterion Every Expects Find He How Improve Make Me Out Play Played Speaking Will

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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

~Edmund White

Topics: Alone Always Became Criterion Decided Discouraged First Forgetting Got Market Me Much New New Yorker Novel Part Please Problem Published Sole Something Too Too Much Would Write Writer Wrote Yorker Young

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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Character Criterion Man Only Real Worth

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