Admission Quotes

• Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Decision, Tickets

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• Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

  Derek Bok

  Program, Advantage

  "Harvard Ends Early Admission Program, Deems It Unfair to Poor, Minority Students". www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2006.

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• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Success, Mistake, Congratulations

  Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen, at Second Conference on Chemical Weapons Treaty Review, www.government.nl. April 07, 2008.

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• A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Teacher, Teaching, Ignorance

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• Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Courage, Admitting

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.239, Penguin

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• Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Silence, Denial

  "Paulus", L, 17,

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• What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

  Mindy Kaling

  Romantic, Writing, Past

  "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Fear, Pride, Competition

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• A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

  Will Rogers

  Work, Justice, Want

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

  Roy Romer

  School, Colorado, Students

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• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  Nassau William Senior

  Errors, Government, Would Be

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• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  Ralph Allen

  Awards, Years, Discipline

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• African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

  Chaka Fattah

  Children, College, Years

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

  Eleanor Clift

  Mean, Doctors, Six Months

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• By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

  Mitch McConnell

  Mistake, Thinking, Leader

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• A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Art, Gambling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Humor, Sequels

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• Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

  Richard Perle

  Law, Bars, Aliens

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.64, Random House

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• If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

  George Carlin

  Games, Play, Religion

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• It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (lecture II: "The Uncertainty of Values")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1998.

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• In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Fashion, Love You

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• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  Edgar Bergen

  Mistake, Adversity, Overcoming

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• I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma

  Mistake, Past, Movement

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