“The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.” FactsProblemExcuseSolveNo ExcusesDrilling Author:Sarah Palin
“It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.” IfsKindIdeasMatterFactsSeemsHappensSoundHighestExcuseNobleBad ThingsBe KindPointlessUnkindEtherealExcuse You Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.” FactsSongRoomsArmyExcuseOfficialsMatesRecallsExcuse MeFree TimeInformingSergeants Author:Tom Lehrer
“The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.” MeanDoeImportantDoneFactsMightTakenEffectsMissingExcuseSecureBetrayHoodFallacyRobinsBenignRobin Hood Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.” ThinkingWritingTryingRealHardPlayFactsJoyPoetryProcessBehindsPracticeSeriousPoetLuckyAimExcuseTechniqueContactAbandonOur ThoughtsExhilarating Author:Tracy K. Smith