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• Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Temptation, Weapons

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

  Bruce Nauman

  Excuse You, Want, No Excuses

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• Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Past, Rest Of Your Life

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2013

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• If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Witty, Revenge

  Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

  Roald Dahl

  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Atheist, Humor

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• To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

  Agatha Christie

  Weakness, Explanation

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• It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Easier, Success Failure

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• The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

  Peter McWilliams

  Ambition, Comfort, Aspiration

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Rich Poor

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• The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

  Luc de Clapiers

  War, Tyrants, Desire

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• If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Luxury, Want, No Excuses

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 07, 2017

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• Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Generations, Dinosaurs, Asteroids

  "Finally, Neil deGrasse Tyson and “Cosmos” Take on Climate Change" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2014.

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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Wine, Drunk

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

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• A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Historical

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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• The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Ideas, Cultural Relativism

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together

  Edmund White

  Teenager, Together, Identity

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• We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Unfaithful, Masters

  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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• There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Men, Littles, Strict

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• It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lapses, Answers, Tongue

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Doe, Done

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Men, Selfishness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Men, Names

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• All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Distance, Unemployment

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