Quotes 21 till 40 of 67.
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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
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How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.
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How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.
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I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
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I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68 -
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smiths Unforgotten Years -
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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