Admit Quotes
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Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.
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I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.
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The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
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For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.
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True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.
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People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
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I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.
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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?
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I admit I'm arrogant but not that arrogant - my arrogance is cool.
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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
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It was hard to admit that those days were over, but it was hard to admit that any days were over, that the days themselves didn't stretch like pulled taffy and sag to the floor.
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We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.
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I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone.
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Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.
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She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a way of looking very directly at one. Now he had to admit that she had become more important to him than anyone else in the world. The idea of a future without her wasn't to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.
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I am able to admit two distinct trains of thought to my mind at the same time.
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To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.
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I can admit and say that I have feelings.
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I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
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Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity.
