Alfredo Kraus
Tenor
"Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive."
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Admitting
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Amy Lee
Musician
"The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control."
Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps"
Stephen King
Author
"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."
Richard Ford
Novelist
"Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things."
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"She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly."
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"Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge."
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"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
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"I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens."
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"Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'"
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"They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future."
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"Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding."
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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."
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"When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again."
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"If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little."
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"Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible."
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"It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self."
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"We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific."
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"There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity."
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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."
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"The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet)."
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"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
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"I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it."
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