"If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions."
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"Necessity is our quickest excuse."
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"The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening."
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"[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust."
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"Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities."
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"The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one."
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"Now if you’ll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me."
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"The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness."
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"Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses."
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"The more you stop giving power to your excuses, the more you'll send power to your dreams."
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"And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true."
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"Victim fall in love with excuses"
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"It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable."
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"Play to your strengths." "I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself. "Excuse me," growled Moody, "you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at?"
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"He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it."
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"Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense."
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"I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain."
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"Bad news is just an excuse."
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"Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing."
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"A little given seasonably excuses a great gift."
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