"Human reason can excuse any evil."
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"The end excuses any evil."
"One of the reasons people aren't rich is because almost everyone has more excuses than money."
"The world used us as an excuse to go mad."
"99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses."
"Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you."
"Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing."
"It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other."
"There is no excuse for not trying."
"Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies."
"Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes"
"Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me."
"You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses."
"Leaders don't make excuses. They create results"
"Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion."
"Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself."
"Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures."
"If I live by illusions, you live by excuses."
"You don't have to make excuses for God."
"There is no waste of time like making excuses."