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Responsibility Quotes
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received."
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"We should each be a carrier of the Kingdom."
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"Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there."
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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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"She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions - to earn my own trust."
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"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
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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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"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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"In dreams begins responsiblities."
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"Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be."
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"I was going to mean what I said, to be direct and firm.I found my moleskin notebook and on the page behind the pages addressed to Never-Never and my family-two unsent letters-I wrote: I am the director of my life."
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"We must learn to choose between lining our bank accounts and being accountable for our future."
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"We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world."
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"Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long."
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"Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis recklessness on Wall Street did."
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"Sometimes I am asked if I know the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude HAS a response. What I do know is that there is response in responsibility. When we speak of this era of evil and darkness, so close and yet so distant, responsibility is the key word,The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future."
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"Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must."
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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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"Responsibility comes with every relationship."
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"Because that happened to me when I was little, this is how I will now treat other people"; "Because so and so beat me up and hurt me a long time ago, that gives me the right to treat people the way I treat them, today"; "Because life was hard on me, life should be hard on everyone else around me"- does this sound/ look familiar? It's called victim mentality. When people choose to be the direct product of everything that happened to them, the direct product of every single pair of hands that hurt them. And the world, to these people, must bend over backwards in order to accommodate their wounds. Some people don't want to be loved; they just want to make the world pay."
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"One must care about a world one will not see."
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"Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them."
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"If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity."
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"A man is responsible for his ignorance."
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"In the long run, success or failure will beconditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation."
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"If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences."
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"Every decision you ever make has its own consequences. Freedom is not the issue. You have freedom to do what you want, you just cannot do it and not pay the price for it."
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"Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves."
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"All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations."
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"You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world."
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"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
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"We do have some capacity to determine how things evolve, and how we evolve, individually and as a community or race. That's a tremendous freedom and a tremendous responsibility."
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"I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living."
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"His father read aloud, quietly, his voice steady and gentle, while he pressed a hand to Liam's delicate back, supporting his position....She realized Dragos was reading the quarterly profit percentages from a stockholders' report."
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"Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, "Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know!"And I'd say, "I know, girl, but you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you."
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"As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes."
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"We are each responsible for our own emotional well being."
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"To those who are given much, much is expected."
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"The human heart operates from two premises: "I Am Responsible" and "Only Love Works."
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"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly."
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"Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day."
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"And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind."
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"Own your mistakes. Even when you're in the process ofscrewing up."
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"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
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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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"Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet."
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"Disposal of thoughts would diminish your intelligence level and you would not be able to fulfill critical responsibilities that would revolve throughout your life."
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"Ironically people will thank a deity for "letting" them win a race, but blame a "witch" if they stumble, look for the nearest suspect, and kill them. Why not blame the deity? Why not accept the setback as easily as they accept the victory/ Time people grew up some, I think - and stopped looking for theoretical "somebodies" to blame for their own misfortunes."
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"If you don t have enough money, you might have too many excuses."
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