“ Do not waste a minute — not a second — in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it. ”
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson- Copy
“ If you really want to make a difference, whether it's in helping other people, or whether it's in fighting for your country, or whether it's in the political arena, or journalism, or physics, you've got to persevere. You've got to understand that there are going to be some enormous bumps in the road… ”
- George H. W. Bush- Copy
“ There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar — net of our senses. ”
- Diane Ackerman- Copy
“ It's wrong, deeply wrong to excuse or rationalize the uncertain gain to come from tolerating the systematic denial of political and economic rights. ”
- Dick Gephardt- Copy
“ I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight. ”
- david wells- Copy
“ He who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
“ Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
“ What a commentary on our civilization when being alone is considered suspect, when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it-like a secret vice! ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
“ The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
“ The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
“ I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done. ”
- Jack Ruby- Copy
“ The administration's solicitude for Muslim sensitivities might well have been interpreted by many Muslims as a vindication of bin Laden's methods. ”
- Richard Perle- Copy
“ In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. ”
- Samuel Hopkins- Copy
“ There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you cant help that,' said the Cat. 'Were all mad here. Im mad. Youre mad.''How do you know Im mad?' said Alice.'You must be, said the Cat. 'or you wouldnt have come here.'. ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
“ They find all kinds of excuses, a thousand excuses — 'There are spies on this team. We don't want this. When are sanctions going to be relieved and removed?' The issue is Iraqi noncompliance, and we should not allow them to move us off that issue. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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