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• More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

  Greg LeMond

  Im Sorry, People, I Am Sorry

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• The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Believe

  Edward Weston (1971). “Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters”

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• Violets are God's apology for February.

  Barbara Johnson

  Violet, February

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.22, Zondervan

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• I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

  Keanu Reeves

  Sorry, Sublime, Noble

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

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• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  Lois Wyse

  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

  Charles I of England

  Defense, Politics, Accused

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

  John Lennon

  Religious, Jesus, Sorry

  "Proof the Beatles are bigger than Jesus!" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

  Nikki Cox

  I Apologize, Stills, Knows

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• If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Business, Ideas, Risk

  "Built to Learn: The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization". Book by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171, 2003.

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

  John Kador

  Gestures, Courageous

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.3, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

  Dave Ramsey

  Perseverance, Integrity, Hard Work

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• When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Inspirational, Change, Forgiveness

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• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

  Randy Pausch

  Antibiotics, Salt, Last Lecture

  "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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  We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Laughing, Watches

  Piers Morgan @piersmorgan, twitter.com. September 04, 2014.

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• We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Blessed, Roots

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• The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.

  John Kador

  Purpose, Way, Process

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

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• I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology.

  Marissa Meyer

  Lied

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• Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

  Rick Santorum

  Sacrifice, America, Arrogance

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• I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Sorry, Science, Technology

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• Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hands, Trying, Friendly

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here.

  Miley Cyrus

  Believe, Mean, Waiting

  "One Day As A Lion And Dr. Dog". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. July 22, 2008.

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• I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Expectations, Waiting, Shadow

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• She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Trying, Path, Shifting

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.65, Bloomsbury Publishing

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