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1 " Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing." These is my words "
2 " We don’t have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency "
3 " Marain, the Culture’s quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other sentient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there are ways of specifying a person’s sex in Marain, but they’re not used in everyday conversation "
― Iain M. Banks , The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
4 " Of course you could do more - you can always do more, and you should do more - but still, the important things is to do what you can, whenever you can. You just do your best, and that's all you can do. Too many people use the excuse that they don't think they can do enough, so they decide they don't have to to do anything. There's never a good excuse for not doing anything - even if it's just to sign something, or send a small contribution, or invite a newly settled refugee family over for Thanksgiving. "
― Will Schwalbe , The End of Your Life Book Club
5 " I like my fellow man, but I also realize he carried a good measure of the Old Nick in him and he can find a good excuse for almost any kind of wrongdoing or mischief. "
― Louis L'Amour , Galloway (The Sacketts #14)
6 " Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... " You Found a stranger, now you are in real danger. "
7 " I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together. "
― Lena Dunham
8 " I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons. "
― Mike Dirnt
