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• I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry.

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Taught Us, Chinese

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• An apology for America's values is never the right course.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Courses, Values

  "Mitt Romney: 'I Believe the Administration Was Wrong'". www.theatlantic.com. September 12, 2012.

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• A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

  Charles I of England

  May, Accused, Defence

  1636 Letter to Lord Wentworth, 3 Sep.

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• There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Horse, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Graphic Arts Books

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• Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Real, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.387, Modern Library

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Sick, Long

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• Make no apologies for who you are.

  Marshall Sylver

  Who You Are

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• For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?

  Stuart Wilde

  Commitment, Essence, Giving

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• Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

  Harriet Lerner

  Mother, Home, Ambition

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• Progress occurs one apology at a time.

  John Kador

  Progress

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.238, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.

  John Kador

  Loses

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.

  John Kador

  Home, Past, Tasks

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• Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Forgiveness, Mean, Persons

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• An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender.

  John Kador

  Compassion, Redemption, Victim

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• You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.

  John Kador

  Way, Situation, Interpersonal Skills

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• Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

  John Kador

  Party, Sacrifice, Behalf

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• I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.

  Keith Johnstone

  Thinking, Stuff, Should

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• No apology is equal to the task set before it.

  John Kador

  Tasks, Equal

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.18, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"

  John Kador

  Answers

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

  Larry Adler

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

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• An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.

  John Kador

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Tree, Forests

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• Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Girl

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Society and solitude, Letters and social aims”

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• And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

  Julianna Baggott

  Art, Dirty, Book

  "Novelist Walks Into a Bar or Facebook or Wherever" by Julianna Baggott, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2011.

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