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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. -- Henry A. Kissinger
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. -- Don Marquis
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. -- Quintilian
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. -- Fulton J. Sheen
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. -- Richard Perle
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. -- Andrew Carnegie
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
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
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education -- Stephen R. Covey
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission. -- Edgar Bergen
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. -- Stephen Covey
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. -- Stephen Covey
There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight. -- Robertson Davies
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
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
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know. -- Roy Romer
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
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
...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public. -- Clive Ponting
"Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes. -- Tina Fey
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
[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices. -- Barbara Bergmann
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business. -- Robert Sternberg
If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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
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
Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down. -- Heather Brooke
Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.' -- Penn Jillette
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
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it. -- Mary-Louise Parker
And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy. -- Rick Mercer
We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects. -- Howard Carter
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world. -- Elon Musk
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's. -- Lakshmi Mittal
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God. -- Monica Johnson
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified. -- John Sununu
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers. -- Don Yaeger
Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe it's a cry for help, an admission of their strong feminine side, or the realization that they don't look so good any other way. Whatever the reason, makeup is as rock n' roll as a Marshall stack. -- Shawn Amos
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me. -- James Gray
War is an admission of failure -- K.J. Parker
Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged. -- Derek Bok
Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee. -- Kin Hubbard
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat. -- Tracy Letts
Donald Trump is a serial philanderer, by his own admission. -- Carly Fiorina
In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. -- Elliott Abrams
In a town church the right place for the admission of light. -- George Edmund Street
He's the kind of player that is worth the price of admission. -- Jay Feaster
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. -- Germaine Greer
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ... -- Amy Vanderbilt
If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission. -- Lenny Bruce
Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions. -- Henry A. Kissinger
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. -- Quintilian
I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show. -- Steven Ramirez
A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission. -- B. Joseph Pine II
Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission. -- Russell Lynes
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability. -- Marya Mannes
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. -- Edward Kennedy
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles. -- Will Rogers
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else. -- George Carlin
Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice? -- Gordon R. Dickson
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission. -- Ice Cube
Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced. -- S.J. Watson
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. -- Groucho Marx
Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence -- Jay Bilas
We was sneakin' in and it was general admission, Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. -- Curren$y
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate. -- Richard Dawkins
Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Why is this so hard?" I whispered. His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard. -- Rachel Vincent
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure. -- Edmund White
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. -- John Adams
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. -- Elizabeth May
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse. -- Amelia Barr
Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy? -- Richard Bach
Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence. -- George MacDonald
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted. -- Michael Shurtleff
On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space. -- Malcolm Bradbury
It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions. -- Nelson Peltz
In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal. -- Frederick Lenz
Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability. -- Ben Marcus
Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other. -- David Ehrenfeld
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness. -- Rich Galen
To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human. -- Aldous Huxley
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish. -- George Bernard Shaw
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries. -- Morris Fishbein
Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether. -- Alan Huffman
If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again. -- Phil Angelides
Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others. -- Rick Warren
It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups -- Condoleezza Rice
But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything? -- Cormac McCarthy
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission? -- Charles Lamb
For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end. -- Monica Crowley
Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality. -- Boyd K. Packer
In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary. -- Thomas Huxley
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. -- J.R. Ward
We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements. -- David Willetts
We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness. -- Henri Nouwen
The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'. -- Jon Stewart
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society. -- Thomas Hardy
If silence is the admission of guilt, then she must be really guilty, because last night I asked her a question and instead of answering, she went to sleep for eight hours. -- Jarod Kintz
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee. -- Banksy
In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets. -- Leah Hager Cohen
In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge -- Robyn Dawes

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