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• The best apology, I think, was from my husband, Steve, who slept with a close friend of mine decades back, when we were committed to being life partners but not yet married. And many of the factors that made Steve's apology so healing are universal. One important thing is that he confessed to the affair, rather than my discovering it. He looked deeply into his own history in terms of why this happened, but he never used that history as an excuse.

  Harriet Lerner

  Husband, Healing, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'd say that while it's normal to long for an apology, if you really need it, you're not ready to speak to whoever harmed you. Non-apologizers tend to walk on a tightrope of defensiveness above a huge canyon of low self-esteem - they just can't listen to anything that's going to set them off balance. So focus on what you say for your own sake, because you need to hear your own voice telling the truth.

  Harriet Lerner

  Long, Focus, Balance

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for ripping people out of their homeland and bringing them here in chains. There is no adequate apology for the ongoing horrific legacy of racism.

  Harriet Lerner

  Racism, People, Legacy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Being able to make a sincere apology - one that says, "Yes, I get it; I screwed up. Your feelings make sense, and I'm taking this seriously" - is at the heart of being successful in leadership, parenting, and friendship, as well as our own integrity and self-worth. And the failure to apologize? Even a good relationship will suffer quietly - because we really feel it when someone won't take responsibility for what they said, or didn't say.

  Harriet Lerner

  Integrity, Heart, Responsibility

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

  Max Lucado

  Humility, Axes, Battle

  Max Lucado (2008). “Cast of Characters: Lost and Found: Encounters with the Living God”, p.71, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.

  Nina Hagen

  People, Different, Stories

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• There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Wise, Niece

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)

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• I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Airports, Tsa, Atlanta

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• When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Islamic, Order

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.

  David D. Burns

  Believe, Differences, People

  Source: time.com

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• Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

  Matt Taibbi

  Player, Hands, Games

  "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

  Mike Huckabee

  Baptists, Ministers

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• The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was even in office the last time America saw a lynching. Some were not even born. But that's the way we prefer our apologies in American politics. We don't apologize for our own sins.

  Mona Charen

  Sorry, America, Lynching

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• Too much apology doubles the offense.

  James Richardson

  Too Much, Offense

  James Richardson (2010). “By the Numbers”, p.38, Copper Canyon Press

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• The best apology against false accusers is silence.

  John Milton

  Silence, Accusers

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.97

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• If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

  Kirk Douglas

  Thinking, House, President

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

  Kirk Douglas

  Country, War, Trying

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Regret, Long, Might

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• No apologies, no regrets.

  Gale Harold

  Regret, No Regrets

  "Fictional character: Brian Kinney". TV Series "Queer as Folk", 2000-2005.

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• And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.

  Maxwell Frazer

  Technology, Thinking, Computer

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• Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Birthday, Time, Regret

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 3, ch. 1

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• I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

  Aaron Burr

  Living My Life, Fitting, I Live My Life

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• I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Way, Consistent

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

  Paul Watson

  Population, Needs, Earth

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• There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Photography, Art, Etc

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