"An excuse is a lie guarded."
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"Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life."
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"Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for"
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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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 need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness."
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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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"Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life."
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"Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance."
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"Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits."
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"The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses."
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"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
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"Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so."
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"Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me."
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"Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow."
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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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"How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses."
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"The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist."
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"A lie is an excuse guarded"
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"Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness"
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