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“You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.”

Knows Littles Helping Light Sides Dark Know How Willing Acknowledge Behave Exploring New Thought Loving You Dark Side Self-examination

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.”

Party Greater Willing Faults Acknowledge Quarrels

Author:Walter Scott

“To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.”

Whole Mother College Willing Son Months University Whole Life Obligation Acknowledge Idle Fourteen Renounce Oxford

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.”

Existence Power Ignorance Willing Acknowledge

Book:Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Source: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

“If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one another, then we must be willing to acknowledge the appropriateness of complex critical responses to writing by men even if it is sexist. Clearly women can learn from writers whose work is sexist, even be inspired by it, because sexism may be simply one dimension of that work. Concurrently fiercely critiquing the sexism does not mean that one does not value the work.”

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.”

Men Law Causes Differences Virtue Willing Morality Please Forgotten Every Man Obligation Vanity Acknowledge Obeying Zealous Approving

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.”

Found Willing Faults Acknowledge Motive Acquaintance Estrangement

Book:The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day

Source: The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day

“Look, every institution will make mistakes. I acknowledge we make mistakes, and they can hurt my reputation and our company's. But you also must be willing to let go a little bit, trust others, and not always be so stringent, provided you have robust controls.”

Looks Littles Bits Hurt Mistake Company Willing Letting Go Little Bit Institutions Reputation Acknowledge Making Mistakes Robust We Make Mistakes Trust Others

Author:Jamie Dimon

“I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.”

Next Asks Records Willing Members Sorry Defense Acknowledge Senate Secretary Committees Disturbing Propose Armed Services

Author:James Mattis