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excuses

«Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it»
«Don't make excuses. Make things happen. Make changes. Then make history.»
«However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.»
«Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him»
«Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.»
«I do not accept excuses. I'm just going to have to find myself a new giant, that's all.»
Author: The Princess Bride | Keywords: excuses, giant
«Bad excuses are worse than none»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Apologies | Keywords: excuses
«It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.»
«Don't make excuses--make good.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: excuses, excusing
«He who makes excuses, accuses himself»