#excuse

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ↗

— Jules Renard

#down #excuse #free #giving #invitation

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#begging #bigger #democrats #excuse #government

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#clinton #excused #good #i #journalists

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. ↗

— Irene Peter

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Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. ↗

— John Malkovich

#excuse #great #i #matters #nothing

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#being #character #excused #just #playing

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#excuse #excusing #fault #make #oftentimes

I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

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