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• A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Money, Debt, Lasts

  Joseph Fort Newton (1937). “Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,”

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• Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

  Charles de Lint

  Choices

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.471, Macmillan

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• Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

  John G. Miller

  Thinking, Personal Accountability, Practice

  Source: www.jmlalonde.com

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• Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

  Michael Parenti

  Responsible Government, Leader, Challenges

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books

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• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  Plato

  Plato, Freedom, Men

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• I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future, is in my hands, and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

  Vijay Mallya

  Running, Believe, Destiny

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• ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mother, Motherhood, Caution

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.11, University of Georgia Press

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• I made the decision. I'm accountable.

  Janet Reno

  Inspirational, Decision, Made

  "Live From..." with Tony Harris, edition.cnn.com. March 21, 2005.

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• Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Torture, Acknowledgment

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• Transparency is the key to good governance & e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Keys, India, Way

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• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  Carl Levin

  Responsibility, Aquariums, Essentials

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• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Vision, Done, Might

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• If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.

  Ralph Nader

  Powerful, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "Making Government and Business Accountable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 16, 1991.

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• Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Health, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

  Paul Hawken

  Government, Missing

  "Experts: Big Hurricanes in Future". www.wired.com. October 02, 2005.

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• When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Strength, Compassion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good men prefer to be accountable.

  Michael Edwardes

  Responsibility, Men, Good Man

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• Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Where You Are, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1904). “Autobiography: Poor Richard. Letters”

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• A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Fear, Business, Responsibility

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Get Up, Share

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• There is no accountability in soft money. None.

  Zach Wamp

  Money, Squash

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• Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

  William P. Leahy

  Talking, Issues, People

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• If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

  Brad Garlinghouse

  Hands, Focus, Needs

  "What I Got Wrong In The Peanut Butter Manifesto" by Brad Garlinghouse, www.businessinsider.com. January 4, 2013.

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• My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

  Vikas Swarup

  Book, Light, Voice

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• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

  Douglas Adams

  Leadership, Money, Educational

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