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• I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello Pardon me How are you? Excuse me Bless you May I? Thank you Goodbye If you know some that I've forgot, Please stick them in you eye!

  Shel Silverstein

  Goodbye, Kindness, Eye

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• A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

  John H. McWhorter

  Challenges, Genuine, Persons

  John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Block, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Aug 23, 2011

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• Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Courage, Selfish, Science

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.

  Daphne du Maurier

  War, Hatred, Village

  Daphne du Maurier (2000). “The Scapegoat”, p.185, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Thinking, Laughing

  Jane Austen (1864). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.17

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• Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

  Philip Pullman

  No Excuses, Ifs

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• I felt mocked. "That's what I get for trusting you." He took a step back. "Excuse me! Trust doesn't mean you get the response you want from someone, but that you'll get an honest response, and that the other person will stick by you even when you can't agree." Stick by you for how long, through how much? I wondered. What is the expiration date on trust?

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Mean, Long, Want

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• Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Soul, Departed

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

  Richard Brautigan

  Trout, Said, Streams

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

  William P. Young

  Strong, Thinking, Use

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Luck, Lobster

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• He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

  Agatha Christie

  Exercise, Men, Self

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Murder in Retrospect”

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• "Which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really."

  Sarah Dessen

  Rights, Feet, Lines

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Emotion, Fit

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.25, Penguin

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• Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Character, Matter, Performances

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• If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Sex, Wine

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• Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

  Eoin Colfer

  Night, Two, Tears

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

  George Eliot

  Determined, Action, Pity

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.219, Wordsworth Editions

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• Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Self, Atrocities Committed

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Character, Matter

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• Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

  Ann Brashares

  Life Is Too Short, Long, Would Be

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• 99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, People, Us President

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• First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

  Hillary Clinton

  School, Kids, Parent

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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