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Responsibility Quotes
"I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real."
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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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"Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them."
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"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."
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"If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now."
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"Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, "I am the only common denominator here."
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"It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat."
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"No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me.""Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?"It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it."I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more."
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"Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight."
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"If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave."
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"We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami."
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"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."
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"Don't you know that everything you do in life has consequences?"
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"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic."
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"Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God - the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God."
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"It is not the job for those who are angry about the events of the day to strike out and post things that they hope will incite anger in others as well. Do not sell your social media friends short as far as their ability to find the news for themselves."
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"I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg."
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"We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice."
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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
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"If people are not in the process of production, they don't deserve anything."
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"When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it."
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"In the end it will be your 'Actions 'Convictions & 'Thoughts which will determine how you shaped your life."
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"Daemon!" Dee called from the kitchen. "I need your help!""We should go see what she's doing before she destroys your kitchen." He rubbed his hands down his face. "It's possible."
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"She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like the look of it, which was unsurprising as the oven and the wall were black. Mrs Winterson replied, 'It's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.' That is a heavy load for a gas oven to bear. She liked that phrase and it was more than once used towards me; when some well-wisher asked how I was, Mrs W looked down and sighed, 'She's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.'This was even worse for me than it had been for the gas oven. I was particularly worried about the 'dead' part, and wondered which buried and unfortunate relative I had so offended."
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"I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman."
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"We all pay for our choices."
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
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"Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility."
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"We should each be a carrier of the Kingdom."
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"I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do."
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"Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society."
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"I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses."
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"Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins."
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"When you are extravagant, you can result yourself facing alot of debt and not adjust to the pursuit of happiness."
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"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."
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"For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been needed. Sometimes they need to help some poor soul through the final hours, help them to find the door, not to get lost in the dark."
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"In dreams begins responsiblities."
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"A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that."
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"Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there."
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"They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame."
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"It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country."
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"As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes."
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"Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect. In this most profound way, we are held responsible for our every action, thought, and feeling which is to say, for our every intention it is therefore, wise for us to become aware of the many intentions that inform our experience, to sort out which intentions produce which effects, and to choose our intentions according to the effects that we desire to produce."
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"Our responsibility as privileged human beings is to pay back for the opportunities we've received."
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"You are responsibility of your life."
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"Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you're not the same person you were either."
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"Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge."
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"A man is responsible for his ignorance."
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