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When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excus...

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Dave EggersYou Shall Know Our Velocity!

Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He...

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In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

You must remember, though, that most normal people have never seen an orogene, let alone had to do b...

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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

one thing I don’t needis any more apologiesi got sorry greetin me at my front dooryou can keep yrsi ...

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Ntozake Shangefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and th...

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If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you ...

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Halfhearted or insincere apologies are often worse than not apologizing at all because recipients fi...

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Proper apologies have three parts:1) What I did was wrong.2) I feel badly that I hurt you.3) How do ...

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