Admittedly Quotes
63 quotes by 60 authors
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South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty... and the fact that the…
— Nelson Mandela
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Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know…
— Walter Russell
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Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away…
— Andrew Greeley
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What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood…
— Steven Levitan
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When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention…
— Roddy Doyle
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Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior…
— Michael Polanyi
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Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by…
— Michael Polanyi
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Admittedly, the masturbation story is just a "Hey, this is one of my best-of's, I'll throw it in the special." But the grandmother stuff, really,…
— Jen Kirkman
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Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects,…
— Edward Hirsch
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I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on…
— Jeremy Irons
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Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have…
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.
— David Cook
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Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of…
— Herbert Read
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In…
— John Major
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
— Henry Miller
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Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
— Andrew Vachss
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The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the…
— Tom Robbins
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