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    To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

by Rudyard Kipling Found in: Excuses Quotes,
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

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

by William Shakespeare Found in: Excuses Quotes,
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

by Aldous Huxley Found in: Excuses Quotes,
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

by Walter Kerr Found in: Excuses Quotes,
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No one ever excused his way to success.

No one ever excused his way to success.

by Dave Del Dotto Found in: Excuses Quotes,
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Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

by Anonymous Found in: Excuses Quotes,
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Bad excuses are worse than none.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Excuses Quotes,
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

by Edward R. Murrow Found in: Excuses Quotes,
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