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• When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.

  Neil Gaiman

  Psychics, People, Imagination

  "Good Omens". Novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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

  Erin Andrews

  Cheerleading, Weakness, Doe

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• You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Love, Dream, Hurt

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• I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  God, Order, Perfection

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• She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

  Ann Brashares

  Heart, Tragedy, Members

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.268, Random House

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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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• 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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• I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Country, Art

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There was a time in our very recent history when it was “interesting” to be a Star Wars fan. It was sort of like admitting you masturbate twice a day or that your favorite band was They Might Be Giants. Star Wars was something everyone of a certain age secretly loved but never openly recognized

  Chuck Klosterman

  Stars, War, Interesting

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television: A Collection of Previously Published Essays”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!

  Faith Hunter

  Taken, Blood, Adults

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• Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

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• Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

  Franny Billingsley

  Mind, Depth, Shallow

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.92, Penguin

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• Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

  Michael Scott

  Mistake, Heart, Responsibility

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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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• Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.

  Tracie Peterson

  Way, Firsts, Steps

  Tracie Peterson (2010). “Morning's Refrain (Song of Alaska Book #2)”, p.92, Bethany House

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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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• 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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• 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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• I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how desperately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.

  Larry Crabb

  Kindness, Long, Feelings

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