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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.

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    We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

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    We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

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    Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

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    We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependant on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do.

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    We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

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    We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

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    We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.

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    What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

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

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    We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

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    What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

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    When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

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    When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

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    When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.

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    What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore.

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    When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

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    When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

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    When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

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    When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.

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    When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

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    Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing.

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    Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

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    Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

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    Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

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    When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

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    Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

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    Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

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    Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.

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    Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.

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    Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

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    Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me.

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    Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for

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    You can have results or excuses. Not both.

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    You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

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    You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

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    You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.

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    You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

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    You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.

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    You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She wiped at his shirt more frantically, as if she could prevent it from staining if she rubbed hard enough. "Oh, now I see your plan, and it's far more devious than I thought." Daniel smirked. "You were looking for an excuse to grope me.

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    Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

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    You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.

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    You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

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    Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.

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    Adult don't know what they say and what they mean once that... other moment something else... it's okay for the kids... they grow... they still don't know a lot of stuff but so far I see that they have an a excuse! - BUt what's the adult... excuse?!

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    Adult don't know what they say and what they mean once that... other moment something else... it's okay for the kids... they grown they still don't know a lot of stuff but they have excuse! - BUt what's the adult... excuse?!

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    Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

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    Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

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    Anxiety and Afraid of being rejected, have always been the killer/s of our dreams.... .... Sounds like this story has been already told by me?

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    Bernie cursed and swore like a sailor sometimes, even around young children, to the point where he was kicked out of Disney World during a trip to Orlando, Florida one year. To boot, he’d jabbed a sewing needle into the helium Mickey Mouse balloons of at least twenty kids before a park worker dressed as Cinderella finally called security. “Disney’s a greedy, bloodsucking corporation,” was Bernie’s half-assed excuse. Tony wasn’t sure that even Bernie himself knew why he had an attitude like that.