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• It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Men, Race

  Julia Quinn (2006). “On the way to the wedding”

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• I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Morning, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Grass, Rescue, Said

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• we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

  Charles Darwin

  Steps, Great Change

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Talking, Understanding, Negative

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.169, A&C Black

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• Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hate, People, Wish

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• Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery.

  Dave Eggers

  Fun, War, Simple

  Dave Eggers (2009). “The Wild Things”, p.208, Vintage

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• You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Hard Times, Sometimes, You Choose

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• Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Pride, Leaving

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• I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  I Like You, Boys, Broken

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• I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.

  Audre Lorde

  Lying, Heart, Taste

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• The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

  Alan Greenspan

  Home, House, Spurs

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• I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

  Gena Showalter

  Temptation, Secret, Done

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Intertwined”, p.138, Harlequin

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• Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

  Erin Andrews

  Cheerleading, Weakness, Doe

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• I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Inability, Mature

  Jim Cymbala, Dean Merrill (1999). “Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People”, p.45, Zondervan

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• Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

  Dodie Smith

  Girl, Real, Men

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• Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

  Stephen King

  Teacher, Kissing, Parent

  Commencement Address, University of Maine at Orono, May 07, 2005.

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• Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Philosophy, Ideas, Giving

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.30, Fig

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• He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

  Truman Capote

  Faults, Made, Willing

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.178, Vintage

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• The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Storm, Twenties

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.585, Del Rey

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• When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.

  George Stevens

  Care, Guests, Want

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• how can he love me then not? He went,he ran. And I cannot bring him back. Yet I left the door metaphorically wide open, hoping he'd come back and bang on it proclaiming, "I want to be here with you. Always." Soon I'm going to have to shutit. For my safety and my sanity. Let go. I don't want to. Won't letting go be just that - letting go? Giving up? Admitting failure? Admitting that it is really, truly over?

  Freya North

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Doors

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• Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Lives Of Others, Inner Life

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.

  Isaac Newton

  Truth, Philosophy, Taken

  Optics Book III, Part I

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• If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

  Dan Barker

  Religion, Atheism, Tools

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