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• Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Elephants, Way, Lectures

  "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences". Robert M. Sapolsky's lecture at Washington State University, October 10, 2001.

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• Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

  Jackson Katz

  Men, Issues, Giving

  "I Am Vulnerable Because I’m Disabled, Not Because I’m a Woman" by Erin M. Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Don't be a victim. Be busy with your horse so you stay out of trouble - otherwise, trouble will come and find you”, Brannaman would say. “Be assertive but don't be aggressive, if you are aggressive you'll make the horse flighty. The horse needs perimeters like anyone else. Give them guidance, support, rules. The same rules. Don't change the game. Don't let them have excuses just cause of their past. And love them.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Past, Games

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• Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information system to alert us to these grand events; they will hit us in the face. Another good excuse for ignoring the literature is that, since everyone has strong beliefs about fundamentals but can't support those beliefs rationally or consistently convince non-believers, computer science is actually a religion.

  Philip Greenspun

  Strong, Book, Support

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• Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

  Eva Figes

  Husband, Children, Father

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• I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

  Grant Cardone

  Want, Lifetime, Obsessed

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Feb 19, 2017

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• Don't make excuses - make improvements!

  Tyra Banks

  Improvement

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• The only dating advice I have to offer is: Expect the guys in your life to be kind and respectful. Don't make excuses for garbagey behavior-'Oh, that's just what guys are like.' It isn't true. Expect them to be good, treat them like they're good. And if they're garbagey, move on. Don't let your world get cluttered up with people who think they have some gender-based right to be awful.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Moving, Thinking, Dating

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• Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Air, President

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• Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

  Jack Bickham

  Writing

  Jack Bickham (1997). “The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes”, p.2, Writer's Digest Books

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• There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.

  C.P. Snow

  Mean, Understanding, Ignorant

  C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”

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• Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse

  Angus Young

  Mean, Long, Room Service

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• Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

  Alice Glass

  Children, Ideas, Honor

  "Crystal Castles". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 8, 2012.

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• Victim fall in love with excuses

  Robin S

  Falling In Love, Fall, Victim

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• And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

  Robin S

  Believe, Enough Time, Dangerous

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• Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

  Chamillionaire

  Life Is, Happens, Make It Happen

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• Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck-you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.

  Chalene Johnson

  Pain, Athlete, Good Luck

  Chalene Johnson (2017). “PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.368, Rodale

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• Dont try to excuse yourself by saying you're doing it for someone else's sake. - Break

  Jun Mochizuki

  Trying, Sake, Break

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• Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Thinking, Cursing

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• The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

  Jaime Lerner

  Believe, Taken, Cities

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• People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  People, Making Money, Worst

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• Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Business, Entrepreneur, Useless

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• Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

  Marianne Williamson

  Helping Others, Cynicism, Helping Hand

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 10, 2013

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• When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

  Epictetus

  Moving Forward, Creative, Feelings

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• Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

  Tim Hansel

  Letting Go, Lasts, Lifetime

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