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• If it's important you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse.

  Ryan Blair

  Success, Important, Way

  FaceBook post by Ryan Blair from Apr 14, 2013

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• Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

  Alfred Jarry

  Thinking, Suffering, Ovation

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• You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

  Jupiter Hammon

  Men, Wicked, Saws

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Depression, Our Society, Reason

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• There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

  Jay Inslee

  Iraq, People, Information

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• Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Lying, Positivity

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

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• To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Mean, Forgiving

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• Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Song, Hippie, Kissing

  Song: Purple Haze

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• Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Motivational, Uplifting, Failure

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

  Erica Jong

  Love, Pain, Joy

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.

  A. R. Bernard

  Crutches, Uncommitted

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• You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.

  Wayne Dyer

  Keys, Complaining, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 14, 2012

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• Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Attitude, Yoga, People

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• People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Integrity, Failure, People

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• Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.

  Marijane Meaker

  Success, Sports, Winning

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• For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, People, Achievement

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• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Powerful, Past

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Boss, Heaven, Earth

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1882.

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• Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

  William Blake

  Judging, Criminals, Christ

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.380, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Justice, Retreat, Harsh

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Cynical

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  Barbara Jordan

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Beyond My Control

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• Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Football, Play, Special

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 02, 2010

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• Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Rights

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• The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Philosophical, May

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.26, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

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