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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progre

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. – Russell Baker

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You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when theres a big photo opportunity for a really good cause. – Russell Baker

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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. – Russell Baker

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If you dont want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. – Yiddish Proverb

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

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

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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. – Benjamin Franklin

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