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Responsibility Quotes
"It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it."
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"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."
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"Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood."
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"Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
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"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."
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"Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them."
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"If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones."
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"We took our eye off the ball as a company."
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"We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal."
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"God provides the food, men provide the cooks."
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"I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility."
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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."
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"Every tub must stand on its own bottom."
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"There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me."
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"Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."
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"Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow."
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"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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"A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes."
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"Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money."
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"I used to want to be a cop for a brief time, a detective, solving crimes and upholding the law, ever since I stated watching crime shows in junior high. But being a cop, contrary to what many believe, isn't like the films or television shows that we see every day. If you're the cop who has to have the grim duty of telling a parent that their child was killed, or who loses their friend on a dangerous case, or who has to interview victims of horrible crimes, somehow I imagine that you just want to quit forever on some days."
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"A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out."
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"A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed."
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"At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility."
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"When we all play our part the world will run as designed. Do your part and do it now!"
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"In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility."
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"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."
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"But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here."
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"The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it."
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"The reason your life stays the same is because you think everyone else is the problem. Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it."
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"Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not."
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"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive."
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"I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there."
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"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
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"It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves."
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"Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future."
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"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."
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"Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous."
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"Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn't complain.What's your excuse?"
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"And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it."
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"Where's Dekka? Astrid asked."In the basement, Edilio said. "She kept going for a long time. Her and Orc and Jack. But she's sick. Tired and sick. And she got a bad burn on one hand. That was it for her. I made her go to Dahra. Lana will, you know, when she's done with Man, I'm sorry, he said as he began crying again. "I can't be digging graves. Someone else has to do that, okay? I can't do that anymore."
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"I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist."
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"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis."
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"And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done."
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"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences."
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"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."
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"So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well."
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"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"
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"Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them."
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