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• You know, I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through, and I'm concerned about more hate and more rage and more anger coming through, not just towards me but towards a black/white conflict.

  Michael Richards

  Sorry, Hate, White

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• I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff...unless we are standing by a cliff.

  Wes Fesler

  Cliffs, Apologizing, Enough

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• I don't need to apologize for my behavior you need to apologize for not understanding.

  Bar Refaeli

  Understanding, Needs, Apologizing

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• Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Forgiveness, Mean, Persons

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• In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

  Louise Wilder

  Garden, Artist, Romance

  "Colour in My Garden".

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• I also want to apologize to my fans, to the kids, everyone who's affected by the situation me and my wife are in.

  Ray Rice

  Kids, Wife, Fans

  "Ray Rice's wife slams his punishment for violence against her" By Ashley Fantz, Josh Levs, Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. September 16, 2014.

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• Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

  Karl Hess

  Peace, War, Government

  "Why Americans Hate Politics" by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Simon & Schuster, (p. 267), 2004.

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• It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, People, Sorrow

  "President: 'I have repented'" by John King, www.cnn.com. September 11, 1998.

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• Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.

  Wes Fesler

  Perfection, Mankind, Courses

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• In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

  Socrates

  Reputation, Found, Investigation

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• Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Beauty, Successful

  1977 How To SaveYour Own Life.

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  Upton Sinclair

  Thinking, Insult To Injury, Rights

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• When we have fights in our family, they don't end with an apology. You make up by getting back to normal. Like you'll call and say, 'You want to go shopping?'

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Sassy, Fighting, Shopping

  Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian (2011). “Kardashian Konfidential: New! Inside Kim's Wedding with Never-Seen Pix, Plus a New Chapter!”, p.122, St. Martin's Press

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• I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

  William Westmoreland

  Regret, Best Effort, Spats

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• . . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Age, Liberty

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From no source has this author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology.

  William Holmes McGuffey

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Simple, Law

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• An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

  Jodi Picoult

  Defense, Built

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Religious, Hands, Fans

  "Brit Marling". Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 24, 2017.

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• I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Waste, Wasting Time

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

  John G. Rowland

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Responsibility

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• The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Law, Punishment

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

  William Gaddis

  Artist, Men, Done

  "The Letters of William Gaddis edited by Steven Moore - review" by Robert Potts, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.

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• So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Hands, Essence

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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