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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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• Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

  Sorry, Humility, Pride

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• Sometimes when the spouse is really the culprit, it is hard to admit what you consider your little failures, but if you are going to have a better relationship, you admitting your part in the dynamics is a step in the road to healing. Because if they see you modeling apology, for example, and they see you modeling love, they may well get the idea that maybe they need to apologize.

  Gary Chapman

  Healing, Ideas, Example

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

  Paul Watson

  Population, Needs, Earth

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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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• Regret is not an apology. I regret that I ran the stop sign, right, but, yeah, I'm not sorry for what I speaking. I regret that because I got a ticket. You can regret things and still not be sorry for them.

  Don Lemon

  Sorry, Regret, Tickets

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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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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• A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mistake, Done, Care

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• There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fighting, Issues, Compromise

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

  James Connolly

  Literature, Mouths, May

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

  Kirk Douglas

  Country, War, Trying

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

  Kirk Douglas

  Thinking, House, President

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• The best apology against false accusers is silence.

  John Milton

  Silence, Accusers

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.97

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• Too much apology doubles the offense.

  James Richardson

  Too Much, Offense

  James Richardson (2010). “By the Numbers”, p.38, Copper Canyon Press

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• The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was even in office the last time America saw a lynching. Some were not even born. But that's the way we prefer our apologies in American politics. We don't apologize for our own sins.

  Mona Charen

  Sorry, America, Lynching

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