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"There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?"
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"Until the police internal affairs system starts prosecuting and firing a substantial number of corrupt and incompetent police officers, I will not be lighting it up blue!"
"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."
"The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after."
"I know you would like to blame the world, but the fact is that life is an 'up to you' thing."
"If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details."
"Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen."
"There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it."
"To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin."
"The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society."
"I paved the path to the very place I don't want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn't put me any place else."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits."
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."
"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."
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