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#pretexts

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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.


Miguel de Unamuno


#conduct #motives #our #pretexts #usually

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.


Edmund Burke


#seldom #tyrants #want

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.


Jose Ortega y Gasset


#living #needs #only #pretexts #reasons

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?


Muqtada al Sadr


#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.


Rudyard Kipling


#justification #mistakes #pretexts #humor

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.


Carlo Goldoni


#them #use #wanting #wishes






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