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• The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Nature, Children, Environmental

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• Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which there can be no political stability or social progress.

  Irene Khan

  Strong, Rights, Law

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• The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

  Mary Robinson

  Moving, Rights, Mdgs

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• It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

  Ben Marcus

  Kids, Parent, Littles

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• The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Evil, Choices, Poverty

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• Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources. The aim is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society.

  Adrian Cadbury

  Goal, Balance, Use

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• But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.

  Michael Coren

  Atheist, Giving, Support

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• Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wonderful, Dependability, Values

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• The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

  William Safire

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.

  Harriet Rubin

  People, Hell

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• You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.

  Mike Lee

  Taken, Government, Play

  "Republican Senator Wants Deeper Spending Cuts". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 08, 2011.

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• Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Littles, Failing

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• Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Mistake, Team

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business

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• 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.

  Criss Jami

  Powerful, Adversity, Order

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

  Bruce Sterling

  Four, Honest, Internet

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• It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

  James Hunter

  Responsibility, Rights, Leader

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business

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• With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without kneeling and humbly asking together for the Lord's protection? Or closing the day without kneeling together and acknowledging our accountability before Him and our thankfulness for His blessings? Brothers and sisters, we need to have family prayer.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Morning, Brother, Prayer

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• We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

  Gwen Ifill

  Real, Years, Balance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

  Mildred Newman

  Happens, Our Lives

  Mildred Newman, Bernard Berkowitz, Jean Owen (2016). “How to Be Your Own Best Friend”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Men, Rich Or Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.46

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• No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

  Matthew Henry

  Atheist, Men, Atheism

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.284

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• My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

  Steve Young

  Fathers Day, Dad, Responsibility

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• Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Mean, Nfl

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• For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective.

  Jay Baer

  Media, Marketing, Blame

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