"No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him."
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"I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself."
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"I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does"."
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"A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable."
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"The comfort-women agreement that we made with Japan during the last administration is not accepted by the people of Korea, particularly by the victims. They are against this agreement. The core to resolving the issue is for Japan to take legal responsibility for its actions and to make an official apology. But we should not block the advancement of Korea-Japan bilateral relations just because of this one issue."
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"In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation."
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"I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology."
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""You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother.""
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"My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady."
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"Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?"
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"I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live."
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"In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility"."
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"I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed."
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"It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain."
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"We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment."
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"I make no apologies for being reasonable."
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"I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly."
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"To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire."
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