“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable, and never acceptable.”
Robert Fripp (1946) English guitarist, composer and record producer
Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”
Comments after President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (20 January 1961).
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Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
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“Our difficulty accepting impermanence is the heart of human suffering.”
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“Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 36
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
“So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
"Conversation with Dr. Ben Carson: The Big Picture" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science-july-dec99-carson_09-07/, PBS NewsHour (September 7, 1999)
Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author
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Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) British journalist, businessman, and essayist
Source: Physics and Politics http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/phypl10.txt (1869), Ch. 2, The Use of Conflict <br class="br">Context: The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step. What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.
“I accept full responsibility for my conduct; I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse.”
Anthony Weiner (1964) American politician
Statement http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/anthony-weiner-courthouse-statement-underage-sext-scandal-article-1.3179334 given after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor (May 19, 2017)