#admission

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

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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

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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

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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

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The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. ↗

— George Combe

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For the first time in my life I was admitting defeat. ↗

— Christina Lauren

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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. ↗

— Quintilian

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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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

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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

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