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• Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Positivity

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• Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

  James Earl Jones

  Indulge In, Race, Events

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

  Addison Mizner

  Funny, Ignorance, Men

  Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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• Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Should, Excuse Me, Elites

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• I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

  Natalie Portman

  Nice, Vanity, Levels

  "Natalie Portman turns heads in 'Vendetta'". www.today.com. February 14, 2006.

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• Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Taste, Bad Life

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Science, Achievement, Experience

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• A lie is an excuse guarded

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Dare, Guarded

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• Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

  William J. Clinton

  Failure, Trying, Guarantees

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• A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Doe, Needs

  "Four in America". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1947.

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• A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

  C. S. Forester

  Moving, Home, Novelists

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• Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

  Charles Lederer

  Thinking, Important, Another World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

  William Camden

  William Camden, John Philipot (1637). “Remaines concerning Britaine: Their Languages, Names, Surnames ...”, p.293

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• Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

  Robert Breault

  Overcoming, Obstacles, No Excuses

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• Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it.

  Melvyn Douglas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Childhood, Wish, Sometimes

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• Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

  Jeanne Calment

  Parent, Thread, Clinging

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

  Sarah Palin

  Facts, Problem, No Excuses

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

  John Selden

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153

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• It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Positive Thinking, Impossible, Thinking

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• To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Husband, Artist, Movement

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company

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• Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Fitness Motivational, Two, Together

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• I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

  Eric Bogosian

  Writing, Play, Acting

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• Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Feel Better, Literature

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• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

  Aesop

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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