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Tag Name "Alibi" (32)

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The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.
Lisa Kleypas
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
Mignon McLaughlin
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It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
Rowan Williams
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But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.
Will Rogers
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
Albert Camus
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We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
Aldous Huxley
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
Andrea Gibson
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You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.
Christy Mathewson
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There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.
Eric Hoffer
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What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.
Eva Rubinstein
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Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.
Gough Whitlam
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Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
Henry Iba
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
Isabel Paterson
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I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.
John Connolly
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Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi
Leonard Cohen
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A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
Leonard Cohen
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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
Mae West
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Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat.
Phil Ramone
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
Agatha Christie
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus
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You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
Albert Camus
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
Anais Nin
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