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• There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

  Harry Reid

  Reality, People, President

  "Reid: White House owes an explanation". www.cnn.com. October 31, 2005.

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• Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.

  Rob Jackson

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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• The bond of family blesses us with an immeasurable power. But we also must accept what comes with it. It gives us a responsibility to love without condition, without apology. We can never waver from the power of that bond, even if it's tested. The bond nourishes us, gives us strength. Without that power, we are nothing.

  Elijah

  Responsibility, Giving, Bless

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• If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

  Jackie Mason

  Running, Humor, Apologizing

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

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• Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Moving, Reflection

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• I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born

  George Galloway

  Party, East, London

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• In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Printing Money, Pennsylvania, Busy

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter V, "Of Paper," p. 54, 1975.

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• The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the sense and spirit of a republic. If taxes are necessary, they are of course advantageous, but if they require an apology, the apology itself implies an impeachment. Why, then, is man imposed upon, or why does he impose upon himself?

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Doe, Republic

  Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.104

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• Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Heart, Eye

  "Ronald Reagan’s Daughter, Patti Davis, Releases Lesbian Novel", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.

  Evan Esar

  Promise, Excuse, Ifs

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• Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.

  Peter Galison

  Real, Book, Views

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• No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Friendship, Men, Friends Forever

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

  Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

  Men, Usa, Leader

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• After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

  Sue Grafton

  Tired, Years, Hollywood

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• Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.

  Mordecai Richler

  Self, Wheat, Indifference

  1971 Of Canada. St Urbain's Horseman, ch.1.

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• If you're married to an entrenched non-apologizer, it won't help to doggedly demand one. Some folks lack the self-esteem required to take responsibility for their less than honorable behaviors, feel remorse, and offer a heartfelt apology. And many people are so hard on themselves for the mistakes they make, they don't have the emotional room to admit vulnerability and apologize to a partner.

  Harriet Lerner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Responsibility

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Fighting

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

  Colin Greenwood

  Where You Come, Apologizing, No Point

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• I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.

  Kathleen Raine

  Writing, Sky, Age

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks

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• Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Kings, Integrity, Men

  "Gonzales: 'I feel angry'". Interview with John King, johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

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• If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

  Francis Parkman

  Way, Fruit, England

  Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

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• I think I deserve an apology.

  Dana Perino

  Thinking, Deserve

  "Perino Demands Apology After Boxer Calls Out White House for Lying About Cheney’s Global Warming Editing" by Satyam Khanna, thinkprogress.org. July 10, 2008.

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• Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

  Douglas Coupland

  Long, Car, Use

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• Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

  Colin Flaherty

  Writing, Race, Territory

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• What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.

  Ilana Mercer

  Ideas, Evil, Toys

  "Obama: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry". www.wnd.com. November 15, 2013.

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