"But I didn't know what to say to……" — Cormac McCarthy
"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?"
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- The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men… — Andrew Carnegie
- Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. — Edward Kennedy
- The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific… — John Dewey
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- War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. — Germaine Greer
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