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"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"
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"It's difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time " you have to choose one."
"We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general."
"Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?"
"The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you, says God."
"I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting."
"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."
"You are responsible for your calling and you must give account."
"All of us will give an account to God about our life on earth, about our position and actions."
"The truth is that if you do not join the way of godliness, then you do not have any reason to complain when the ungodly are busy planning and making the pathway of ungodliness."
"You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of."But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out."
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"If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it."
"When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of Peace, find a Human Sunrise. Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality. Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and bare feet, and they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not. But they are working to bring peace, light, compassion, to the infinitely frightening downhill slide of Human life."
"I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman."
"A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something."
"What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins."
"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't."
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
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