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• If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

  Bill Vaughan

  Drinking, Political, Abuse

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• What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.

  Peter Drucker

  Top Management, People, Benefits

  "The Relentless Contrarian". Interview with Peter Schwartz, Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. August 1, 1996.

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• The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit.

  William Lane Craig

  Believe, Men, Religion

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!

  Wyclef Jean

  Projects, Mansions, Huts

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2009

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• Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Ignorance, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

  Clarice Lispector

  Ignorance, Self, Law

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• Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupidity, Excuse, Anonymity

  "Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives". Book by Albert Einstein, p. 54, 1979.

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• In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase our knowledge of the law of the Lord...Surely there can be no excuse for us not to become the best informed generation of all time in our knowledge of the scriptures. Never before have we had opportunity such as we have today to become real gospel scholars.

  L. Tom Perry

  Real, Opportunity, Law

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• There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.

  Jemele Hill

  Team, Cowboy, Dallas

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• Know that once we have received Jesus, we can't continue to live our old sinful lifestyle. Now that we have His Holy Spirit living in us, guiding us, and transforming us, we have no excuse.

  Stormie Omartian

  Jesus, Spirit, Lifestyle

  FaceBook post by Stormie Omartian from Dec 06, 2014

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• There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Oil, Rivers, Toxic Waste

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• Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Australia, People

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• And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

  Tony Abbott

  Commitment, Government, People

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• We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Surprise, Coalitions

  "Tony Abbott calls on PM to 'name the date'". "7.30 Report" with Chris Uhlmann, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2013.

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• I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

  Charles de Lint

  Excuse, Really Living, Happens

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Tapping the Dream Tree”, p.250, Macmillan

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• I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Knowing, World

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• There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

  John Bolton

  Abuse, Defense, Waste

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• What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.

  Ambrose

  Years, Overcoming, Benefits

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• I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

  Rico Love

  Song, Cutting, Excuse You

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• We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

  Tony Abbott

  Commitment, Government, People

  "Doorstop Interview, Darwin". Doorstop Interview, Darwin, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. November 10, 2013.

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• We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Agreement, Years

  Barack Obama's remarks at G20 Press Conference at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center in Brisbane, Australia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 16, 2014.

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• No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.

  Troy Aikman

  Errors, Excuse, Happenings

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• The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Self, Abuse, Bed

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• Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

  Judith Martin

  Differences, Rudeness, Ideological

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• The climate crowd did a lousy job communicating. Several reports have itemized the fact that over a billion dollars was spent on climate by the environmental side over the past decade. There is simply no excuse for the failure to communicate.

  Randy Olson

  Past, Environmental, Communicate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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