#excuse

Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it. ↗

— Gary Cox

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ↗

— Russell Baker

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I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

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Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

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