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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Any Away Excuse Get Great Hardest Hardest Part Keeping Leave Part People Plays Room Take Tension Them Together Tricks Want Writing You

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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

~Aesop

Topics: Any Excuse Serve Tyrant Will

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There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

~Al Gore

Topics: About Another Another Day Any Away Day Deny Excuse Future Long Look Natural Push Realities Resolve Tendency Them Think Unpleasant Us Vulnerable

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If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on 'religious grounds'? For that matter, will 'religious freedom' be used as an excuse to discriminate against other minorities and disenfranchised groups across the board? Where will it end?

~Al Sharpton

Topics: Across Act Affordable Affordable Care Act Against Based Board Care Companies Coverage Discriminate Disenfranchised End Excuse Freedom Grounds Groups Matter Minorities Objections Other Provide Refuse Religious Religious Freedom See Used Where Will Women

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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: About Actually Because Excuse Job Learnt Living Perfect Relationship Stop

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I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Any Excuse Love Work I Love

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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Become Excuse Fear Freedom Freedom Of Speech Justification Restricting Should Speech Threat Violence

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Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today's problems as an excuse for inaction, rhyme or rhetoric that does not meet the challenges before us.

~Alan Siegel

Topics: About Before Cause Challenges Clear Complexity Does Excuse How Ideas Inaction Longer Meet Must National Politicians Problems Rhetoric Rhyme Serve Simple Today Us Use Will

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As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that's no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.

~Alan Stern

Topics: About Before Champion Charge Entire Excuse Failing Growing Involved Missions Myself Nasa No Excuse Problem Projects Reform Remaining Scientist Sensors Silent Space

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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Cannot Condemn Excuse Intellectual Other Role Side Violence

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