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• I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of.

  Paul Robeson

  Spiritual, Sorry, Pride

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sorry, Play, Keyboards

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• I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Sorry, Like Love, People

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• To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Sorry, Believe

  "What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?". www.esquire.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sorry, Suffering, Extravagance

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sorry, Lying, Hatred

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• By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sorry, Self, Evil

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• As I've been involved in the fight for marriage equality, one of the things I've learned is how many people were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved. I apologize to them and tell them I am sorry. While there have been recent victories, this could still be a long struggle in which there will be setbacks, and I'll do my part to be helpful.

  Ken Mehlman

  Sorry, Struggle, Fighting

  "Same sex, opposite impact". Interview with Thomas Schaller, www.salon.com. March 2, 2012.

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• I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Sorry, Pain

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Sorry, Writing, People

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• I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Sorry, Doors, Mind

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA

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• It is a Mormon truism that is current among us and we all accept it, that as man is God once was and as God is man may become. That does not signify that man will become God. I am sorry to say, and yet it is a truth, that not many men will become what God is, simply because they will not pay the price, because they are not willing to live up to the requirements; and still all men may, if they will, become what God is, but only those who are heirs of the celestial glory shall ever be possible candidates, to become what God is.

  Melvin J. Ballard

  Sorry, Men, Pay The Price

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• I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the Prime Minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.

  Liam Fox

  Loyalty, Sorry, Mistake

  Liam Fox during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 10, 2011.

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• Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Sorry, Book, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.82

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• I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Funny, Sorry, Knows

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• I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

  Charles Darwin

  Jesus, Sorry, Believe

  Letter to Frederick McDermott, www.darwinproject.ac.uk. November 24, 1880.

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• All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

  Deborah Kerr

  Sorry, Successful, People

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• Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.

  Dale Dauten

  Jobs, Sorry, Home

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• Will: "You are not really dying, are you?" Jem: "So they tell me." Will: "I am sorry." Jem: "No. Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. Say you’ll train with me." Will: "I’ll train with you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sorry, Dying, Ordinary

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• Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sorry, Reality, Achievement

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

  Rachel Caine

  Sorry, Decision, Approval

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.562, Penguin

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• I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.

  Barack Obama

  Sorry, Memorable, Situation

  "VIDEO: Watch Obama (kinda, sorta) apologize to Americans’ losing their health plans". www.washingtonpost.com. November 7, 2013.

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• I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he was really like. I was hoping that”—he smiled wistfully—“you would recognize me.

  Anne Fortier

  Sorry, Asking, Am Sorry

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.326, Ballantine Books

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• I am sorry I couldn't complete my term as leader. It is necessary for my staff to resign ... to regain the people's trust.

  Seiji Maehara

  Sorry, People, Leader

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• I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sorry, Rip, Heart

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