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• I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Needs, May

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• I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.

  Walker Percy

  Eye, Thinking, Class

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want for ourselves we also want for others, not because we're imposing our system on others but because those opportunities belong to all people as God-given birthrights and because by promoting democracy and economic opportunity we make peace more secure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opportunity, America, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Inspiration, Thinking, Views

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• Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won't know how to handle all the things I've done wrong.

  Meggie Royer

  Done, Stuttering, Handle

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• one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.

  Ntozake Shange

  Sympathy, Sorry, Doors

  Ntozake Shange, “'Sorry'”

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• I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Mother, Baby

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• The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.

  William Kristol

  Wings, Political, Agendas

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• Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

  Richard Paul Evans

  Chocolate

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• A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Tree, Comfort

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• It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Religion, Doe

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• It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flower, Moving, Order

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Bones”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Men, Voice

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• Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Soul, Chocolate, Broccoli

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set: Christmas List, Christmas Box Miracle, Finding Noel”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry' he said, I sneezed. A person can't help it when they sneeze. Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony; Will told him.

  John Flanagan

  Sorry, Agony, Elephants

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• Apologies are not pass/fail.

  Randy Pausch

  Failing

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• A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

  Judith Martin

  Apologizing, Etiquette, Unfortunate

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• Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

  David Deida

  Thank God, Depth, Emotion

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.135, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

  Angela Lansbury

  Running, Book, Greatness

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• I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

  Hume Cronyn

  Play, Trying, Pieces

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• When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

  Idris Elba

  Character, Play, Looks

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• To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

  Alanis Morissette

  Low Self Esteem, Firsts

  Song: Sorry to Myself, Album: Feast On Scraps

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• I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Teaching, Thinking

  "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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• The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.

  William James

  Science, Unique, Class

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• I actually think that the president owes the Jews of Europe an apology. They deserve better from the President of the United States. Anti-semitism is on the rise, and somebody must stick up for them.

  Dana Perino

  Thinking, Europe, Deserve Better

  "Obama calls terror attack on Paris kosher deli a random act". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2015.

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