It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Letter to his niece, Harriet Washington (30 October 1791).George Washington
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"Nothing can silence me as long as I am alive. I don’t give any kind of excuse. If I cannot come out [of China] or I cannot go in [to China] this is not going to change my belief. But when I am there, I am in this condition: I see it, I see people who need help. Then you know, I just want to offer my possibility to help them."
Ai Weiwei
"The good deeds of one who, without any appropriate excuse does not offer his prayer until its time passes away, are annulled." He then said: "The divide between a believer and disbelief is the abandonment of prayers."
Holy Prophet Muhammad
You are ungraceful: "Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. "With reverence be it spoken..." The only thing bad is their excuse. 58
Blaise Pascal
Clive Barker: It's an excuse to look at my groin.
Craig Ferguson: I'm European - I don't need an excuse.Craig Ferguson
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
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