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• Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

  Richard L. Gordon

  Political, Firsts, Problem

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• While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

  Andrew Solomon

  Motivation, Humility, Writing

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

  George Muller

  Self, World, Taste

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• I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

  Woody Hayes

  Mistake, Taken, Men

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• Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Superficial

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• The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Lying, Communication, Thinking

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• Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

  Graham Joyce

  Alcohol, Drug, Pits

  "Sometimes a Great Notion". Book by Graham Joyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 1964.

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• Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

  Susan Jeffers

  Mean, Responsibility, Victim

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.57, Random House

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• Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.108, editionNEXT.com

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• People who lose money always need someone to blame.

  James Chanos

  People, Needs, Loses

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• You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Responsibility, Enemy

  Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree (1975). “The new Atlantis and other novellas of science fiction”

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• Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Peace, War, Dictator

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• In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

  Jack Kornfield

  Perfect, World, Earth

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015

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• Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Causes, Individual, Effects

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• One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

  Dion Fortune

  Sheep, Organization, Black

  Dion Fortune (2011). “Psychic Self-Defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.119, Weiser Books

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• It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

  Daniel Pipes

  Mistake, Evil, Islam

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• I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.

  Immortal Technique

  Kids, Technique, Fans

  Song: Reverse Pimpology

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• Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hate, Forgiving, Deceived

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.

  Jack Kerouac

  Matter, Faults

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.210, Penguin

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• The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

  Stefan Molyneux

  High Standards, Use, Moments

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• I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb.

  Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

  Thinking, India, Too Much

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• If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

  George Best

  Mind, Ifs

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• The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

  Moby

  Hair, Interesting, Truth Is

  "One last thing". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

  Will Rogers

  Hurt, Government, Body

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Frustrated, Young

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