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• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.141, Library of America

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• Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

  Pearl S. Buck

  Courage, Integrity, Adversity

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• Leaders don't make excuses. They create results

  Robin Sharma

  Leader, Results

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 17, 2013

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• One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Successful, Years

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• If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Following Christ, Deception, Church

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• It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Voting, Facts

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• I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

  Mark Teixeira

  Spring, Team, Thinking

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• Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

  Mia Love

  America, Community, Progress

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• What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

  Jacques Attali

  Communication, Self, Growth

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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• If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told.

  Harry Crews

  Lying, Writing, Heaven

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• Excuses are tools of the incompetent

  Mike Tomlin

  Tools, Incompetent

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2013

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• Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sex, Eye, Looks

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Coward, Neglect, Accomplish

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• The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Time, Player, Law

  Chess Life, Volume 16-18, p. 113, 1961.

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• One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Giving, Looks

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.12, Anchor

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• Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Literature, Persons

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.213, Courier Corporation

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• There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

  Brandon Stanton

  Motivational, Dream, Work

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• Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

  Dean Cavanagh

  Practice, Simplicity, Complexity

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• If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Real, Enough, Feels

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story.

  Isaiah Austin

  Stories

  Isaiah Austin (2016). “Dream Again: A Story of Faith, Courage, and the Tenacity to Overcome”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

  Samuel Foote

  William Cooke, Samuel Foote (1806). “Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, &c., Mostly Original, and Three of His Dramatic Pieces Not Published in His Works : in Two Volumes”, p.179

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• I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Believe, Thinking, Way

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• Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

  Rick Santorum

  Lying, Boston, America

  "Fishers of Men". www.catholic.org.

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• I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

  Ashley Rickards

  House, Lists, Losing

  "It's Official: Awkward's Ashley Rickards Is Freaking Hilarious and She Shared Her Phone Pics to Prove It" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what you do after it. Every failure and setback can become part of your success or an excuse for quitting or failing. People who develop the discipline of positivity are both happier and more successful.

  Michael Josephson

  Block, Positivity, Successful

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