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• However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

  Graham Greene

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  "The Comedians". Book by Graham Greene. Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, 1966.

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• A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Football, Team, Looks

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• Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the number of days a person is ill. The cold season should not be an excuse for the average person to refrain from exercising - working out at the gym, a brisk walk in the park or a jog through the neighborhood.

  Michael Flynn

  Exercise, Fighting, Average

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• Leave your excuses behind, and you will begin to attract wealth.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Wealth, Behinds

  Joe Vitale (2005). “The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons

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• Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff

  Bob Marley

  Marijuana, Reality, Light

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• When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

  Robert Townsend

  Leadership, Failure, People

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• Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

  John Wesley

  Thinking, Bigotry

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.346

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• So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

  Pliny the Younger

  Produce, Reader, Heard

  Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.

  Carlos Santana

  Heart, Creating, Giving

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• The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

  Scott Spencer

  Couple, Believe, Trouble

  Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Design, No Excuses

  May Morris, William Morris, Bernard Shaw (1936). “William Morris: artist, writer, socialist”

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• Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

  Jose Serrano

  Leadership, Strong, Tired

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• Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

  Graham Greene

  Fun, Men, Brain

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

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• My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

  Mary Garden

  Block, Kind, Illness

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• I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

  Don Marquis

  Race, Bells, Hell

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, Speaks French, Giving

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• One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

  Andrew Davies

  Clothes, Necks, Adaptation

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• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  Chris Lowe

  Play, People, Waiting

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• There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Do not give yourself another excuse to put off making up your mind. You know in your heart of hearts that once you do that you have got to act.
  You owe it to the world, your family and most importantly, to yourself to live a life of no regrets. Stop worrying about what other people will think, say, or do. You only have one life. LIVE IT now. You have GREATNESS within you!!

  Les Brown

  Powerful, Regret, Heart

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• Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Expression, Suffering

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.10

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• Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

  Helen Hayes

  Giving

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

  Robert Anthony

  Wish

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• Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power.

  Robert Anthony

  Lack Of Faith

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• I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

  Halle Berry

  No Excuses, Sexuality, Comfortable

  "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

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• The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Mean

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