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• I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.

  Kathleen Raine

  Writing, Sky, Age

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks

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• Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

  Michael Foot

  Socialism, Fantastic, Ownership

  The Daily Herald, 1956.

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• If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

  Francis Parkman

  Way, Fruit, England

  Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Fighting

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.

  Peter Galison

  Real, Book, Views

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• Everything starts with a lie and ends with an apology.

  Zoran Drvenkar

  Lying, Ends

  Zoran Drvenkar (2011). “Sorry”, p.14, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors." They did. And they were fired when I graduated.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, Sorry, Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Giving, Church

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• My life is not an apology, but a life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.24

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• When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

  Rihanna

  Real, Feel Good, Noise

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• There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Leader, Massacres

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• Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Order

  Julia Cameron (2001). “God is No Laughing Matter”, p.158, Penguin

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• And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

  Julianna Baggott

  Art, Dirty, Book

  "Novelist Walks Into a Bar or Facebook or Wherever" by Julianna Baggott, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Girl

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Society and solitude, Letters and social aims”

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• A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Tree, Forests

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• Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

  Larry Adler

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

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• The comfort-women agreement that we made with Japan during the last administration is not accepted by the people of Korea, particularly by the victims. They are against this agreement. The core to resolving the issue is for Japan to take legal responsibility for its actions and to make an official apology. But we should not block the advancement of Korea-Japan bilateral relations just because of this one issue.

  Moon Jae-in

  Block, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Make no apologies for who you are.

  Marshall Sylver

  Who You Are

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• In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Printing Money, Pennsylvania, Busy

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter V, "Of Paper," p. 54, 1975.

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• I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born

  George Galloway

  Party, East, London

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• Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Moving, Reflection

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• Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

  Janet Macunovich

  Why Not, Firsts, Plant

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• Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Song, Jesus, Church

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• I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all . The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly . Seeing the way we're treated within these United States ... it burns you even more every day.

  Jill Scott

  Running, Differences, Long

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• For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Hundred, Persons

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