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• More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

  Greg LeMond

  Im Sorry, People, I Am Sorry

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• The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Believe

  Edward Weston (1971). “Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters”

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• Violets are God's apology for February.

  Barbara Johnson

  Violet, February

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.22, Zondervan

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• I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

  Keanu Reeves

  Sorry, Sublime, Noble

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

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• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  Lois Wyse

  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

  Charles I of England

  Defense, Politics, Accused

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

  John Lennon

  Religious, Jesus, Sorry

  "Proof the Beatles are bigger than Jesus!" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

  Nikki Cox

  I Apologize, Stills, Knows

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• If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Business, Ideas, Risk

  "Built to Learn: The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization". Book by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171, 2003.

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

  John Kador

  Gestures, Courageous

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.3, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Inspirational, Change, Forgiveness

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• If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

  Dave Ramsey

  Perseverance, Integrity, Hard Work

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• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

  Randy Pausch

  Antibiotics, Salt, Last Lecture

  "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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  We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Laughing, Watches

  Piers Morgan @piersmorgan, twitter.com. September 04, 2014.

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• We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Blessed, Roots

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• The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.

  John Kador

  Purpose, Way, Process

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology.

  Marissa Meyer

  Lied

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• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Revenge

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• History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

  Albert Pollard

  People, History, Age

  Albert Pollard (2018). “Henry viii”, p.199, Ozymandias Press

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• The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Independent, Past

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• In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Eye, Government

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.6

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• My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.

  Sylvia Day

  Lovers, Made, Tendencies

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.174, Penguin

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• Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

  David Brin

  Inspiring, Carpe Diem, People

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