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"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."
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"Apology means nothing without change, you have to follow it up with action."
"The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure."
"A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws."
"Excuses cost you more than they buy you."
"You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind, no man is known for a skillful hunting by the number of bush meats gathered by another man!"
"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."
"There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?"
"The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it."
"And without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die."
"Own your mistakes, learn from them; apologize if you have to, and then, be unapologetically you."
Explore more quotes by Ambrose Bierce
"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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