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• Living in England has no such excuse:
  These are my customs and establishments.

  Philip Larkin

  Home, England, Establishment

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

  Samuel Richardson

  Character, Heart, Interesting

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)”, p.3951, Delphi Classics

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• If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Fear, Illusion, Live By

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• It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

  Charles Studd

  Real, Men, Soldier

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• One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Giving, Attention

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

  Michael Stipe

  Guy, Trying, Collaboration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be.

  Jude Law

  Reading, Directors, World

  "Jude Law Talks SIDE EFFECTS, GATTACA, EXISTENZ, A.I., SHERLOCK HOLMES 3, His Favorite Comic Books, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

  Tony Danza

  Teaching, Poverty, Combat

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2012.

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• Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Mean, Government, Excess

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• I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire.

  Angelina Jolie

  Dark, Thinking, Fire

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

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• There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

  Mark Duplass

  Weekend, No Excuses, Film

  "Mark Duplass: 'There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends'" by Lanre Bakare, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2015.

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• When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Feelings, Needs

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• Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

  Mason Cooley

  Pain, Attention, Pay

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• Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

  Mason Cooley

  Stupidity, Likes, Offers

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• Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

  Iain Banks

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Country, Extravagance, Substance

  Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1870). “Political Economy for Beginners”, p.28, London ; Cambridge : Macmillan

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• A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

  Norm MacDonald

  Faults, Disposition, Shows

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• The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.

  Thomas Huxley

  Crush, Men, Views

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 1, p. 28, 1884.

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• Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

  Mary Browne

  Status Symbol, Poor, Symbols

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• Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Air, Height

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.159, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Friends, Writing, Phones

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 17, 2012

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• You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Moving, Growth

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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, Apology, Essence

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• You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Blood, Hands, Defense

  "Eight Homilies Against the Jews". Book by Saint John Chrysostom (Homily 6), sourcebooks.fordham.edu.

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• The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Honor, Deeds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.527, Harvard University Press

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