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• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  Ira Glass

  Radio, Speak, Untruth

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Mistake, Team

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business

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• We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

  Brian D. McLaren

  God, Christian, Humble

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• A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  God, Christian, Men

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 23, 2013

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• Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

  Alfredo Kraus

  Singing, Alive, Form

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• For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Ice Cream, Mcdonalds, Ironic

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• Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

  Bill Brandt

  Fields, Photographer, Wonder

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• Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

  Tina Brown

  Mistake, Psychics, Punishment

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• To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

  Charles Darwin

  Distance, Believe, Eye

  "The Collapse of Evolution". Book by Scott Huse, p. 73, 1996.

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• The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

  Pete Seeger

  Firsts, Steps, Problem

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fall, Reality, Errors

  Bertrand Russell (2007). “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p.170, Spokesman Books

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• I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Lawyer, Realizing

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• The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

  Alain de Botton

  Memories, Lying, Leaving

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Illumination, Simplicity

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Fear, Writing, Air

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• To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

  Brennan Manning

  Mean, Dark, Light

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

  Terry Goodkind

  Firsts, Steps, Knows

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.146, Head of Zeus

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• The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love, Hate, Achievement

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.59, Image

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• We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Grace, Religion

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.134, Zondervan

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• The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, America, Tree

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

  Jane Fonda

  Mistake, Consistency, Stopping

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

  Brad Meltzer

  Wanting Someone

  Brad Meltzer (2009). “The Book of Lies”, p.486, Hachette UK

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• I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Government, Female

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.144, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Appreciate, Ignorant

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

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