Admitting Quotes - Page 10

• Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.

  Elise Hu

  Girl, Teenage, Men

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not.

  Henry Cavill

  Doubt, Matter

  "Henry Cavill Often Wonders Why the F*ck He's Shirtless". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

  Kit Williamson

  Thinking, Knows

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• We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Engineering, Agriculture

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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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.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Triumph, Taste

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.38, Vintage

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• We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

  Lee Strobel

  Asking, Process, Accelerate

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Sadness, Yesterday, Live In The Moment

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• The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Independent, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Hurt, Pride, Vanity

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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• By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

  Signe Baumane

  Art, Film, Formulas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie; if you're wrong, correct; do not misrepresent; and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Lying, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hate, Believe

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• I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Privilege, Burden

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.52, Jazzybee Verlag

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