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• You're my backbone. You're a blessing. You're a piece of my heart. You're the air I breathe. And you're the strongest person I know, and I'm so sorry for having to put you through this and having to put our family through this.

  Kobe Bryant

  Sorry, Heart, Blessing

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• We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

  Bernard Malamud

  Country, Russia, Fur

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• My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

  Colin Firth

  Voice, Singing, Problem

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• Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

  Laozi

  Done, Body, Infinite

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested.

  Mel Gibson

  Night, Thinking, Law

  "Gibson pleas for forgiveness as series is dropped" by Dan Glaister and Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

  Lysander Spooner

  Giving Up, Men, Rights

  Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.21

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• Apologies are seldom of any use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Use

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.261, Princeton University Press

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• If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Literature, Hussein, Administration

  "The O'Reilly Factor". News, Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. 1996 - 2017.

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• My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

  Joan Rivers

  Mother, Children, Humorous

  "Goodbye to the mother of all comedians: Joan Rivers' 9 best quotes on motherhood" by Sarah Maizes, www.today.com. September 05, 2014.

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• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Math, World

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

  Socrates

  Wise, Thinking, Gentleman

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• You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

  Socrates

  Thinking, Men, Risk

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• I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

  George W. Bush

  Political, Politics, Campaigns

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• Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

  Blaise Pascal

  Praying, Excuse, Known

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• Eating words has never given me indigestion.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Health, Eating

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I guess I have learnt now that life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

  Celina Jaitly

  Accepting, Easier

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013

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• My life is an apology for the life of my father.

  Kristin Cashore

  Im Sorry, Father, Life Is

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.56, Penguin

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• I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

  Mark Twain

  Country, Done, Littles

  Tom Sawyer Abroad ch. 12 (1894)

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• I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.

  George Michael

  Believe, Supportive, Fans

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Later In Life, Feet, Genius

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

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• If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Mistake, Two

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• I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

  David Kay

  Reality, World, Analysts

  "Weapons Hunt". Interview with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. January 28, 2004.

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• When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

  Dorothy Parker

  Apologizing, Wells

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Sorry, Mean

  What Then Must We Do? ch. 16 (1886) (translation by Aylmer Maude)

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