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• Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Years, Two, Four

  "Song: 'Mr. Apollo'". 1969.

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• It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Humble, Example, Way

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

  William Holmes McGuffey

  Sacred Scripture, Source, Us History

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• At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Morning, Heart, Gay

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Emotional

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• Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Biblical, Rights

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• The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.

  Hanne Blank

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press

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• When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.

  S. Bear Bergman

  Taken, Men, People

  S. Bear Bergman (2010). “Butch is a Noun”, p.66, arsenal pulp press

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• The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Taken, Water, Doe

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Creative Unity”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of ours. The Doctor of souls, however, wishing to root out the soul's excuses from the heart, tells us to leave our gift and to be reconciled not only if we happen to be upset by our brother, but also if he is upset by us, whether justly or unjustly; only when we have healed the breach through our apology should we offer our gift.

  John Cassian

  Brother, Heart, Doctors

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• But there is a world of difference between dancing and watching a dance performed by a group of professionals who are paid for it. You work hard during the day, and when you are tired in the evening you go to a concert to watch others dancing. It is all you can do, but it is not even an apology for celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Hard Work, Tired, Differences

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• Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly.

  Beverly Engel

  Treated, Persons, Including

  Beverly Engel (2002). “The Power of Apology: Healing Steps to Transform All Your Relationships”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have nothing definite to apologize for; I'm just sorry about everything in general.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sorry, Apologizing, Definite

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• Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.

  Doreen Virtue

  Giving, Guilt, Care

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• I make no apologies for being reasonable.

  Barack Obama

  Reasonable

  Remarks by the President in a Town Hall Meeting in Decorah, Iowa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 15, 2011.

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• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  Ma Jian

  Media, People, Chinese

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, People, Laid Back

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• When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

  Christine Pelosi

  Color, Talking, Class

  "Careful, 'Having It All' Women, Your Privilege Is Showing" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

  Andrea Thompson

  Art, Black And White, Years

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• Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

  Alan Clark

  Work, Giving, Wrecks

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• In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

  Horace

  Writing, Thinking, Age

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• In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

  Charles I of England

  Negativity, Defense, Littles

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• rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

  John J. McCloy

  Rejection, Redress, Rejected

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• Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country,.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Country, Pain, War

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• Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.

  Abraham Coles

  Wine, Character, Rocks

  Abraham Coles (1882). “The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse”

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