#admission

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

#genius #novelty #poetry #truth #truths

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

#compromise #compromised #contradictory #defeat #men

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

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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Edgar Bergen

#audience #find #mistakes #out #pays

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

#ouch #sweet #beauty

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ↗

— Don Marquis

#been #imitating #reduced #sequel #you

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. ↗

— Richard Perle

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

— Quintilian

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