Quote by Russell Baker
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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Reporters thrive on the worlds misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. – Russell Baker

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Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. – Author Unknown

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Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. – Steven Grayhm

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I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. – Florence Nightingale

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Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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