Quotes 61 till 80 of 89.
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Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.
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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
A Distant Mirror -
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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We may admit that our groping is often inspired, but we must be on our guard against the belief, however deeply felt, that our inspiration carries any authority, divine or otherwise.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1830) -
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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