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• Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

  Lawrence Summers

  Greek, Investing, Financial

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• At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has always, universally, been on the right side of justice is engaging in a hypocrisy that is itself a joke.

  Guy Branum

  Believe, Hypocrisy, Justice

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• A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

  J. Paul Getty

  Men, Blame Someone, Failing

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• People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  People, Expectations, Drug

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My Life and Some Letters”

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• I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Grief, Way, Helping

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• When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

  Iain Pears

  Jobs, Years, Civilization

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin

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• Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.

  Brandon Mull

  Worry, Fixing, Problem

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

  Quentin Crisp

  Praise, Asks, Ifs

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• One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

  David Eddings

  Betrayal, Hate, Acceptance

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• When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

  Pat Conroy

  Men, Self, Agony

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.312, Open Road Media

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• It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

  Sarah Dessen

  Choices, Ifs, Consequence

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.124, Penguin

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• He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

  Mitch Albom

  Prayer, Pain, Thinking

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

  Brian Tracy

  Happiness, Self Esteem, Blame Someone

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• Edgar had a heart attack, and I'm to blame. We were making love, and I took the bag off my head.

  Joan Rivers

  Heart, Making Love, Bags

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• No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

  Judith Viorst

  Guilt, Trying, Pay

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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• One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Government, Server, Sensible

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

  Bill Crawford

  Fire, Hot, Coal

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• There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

  Paul Farmer

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Agency

  Paul Farmer (2001). “Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Thinking, Devil

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• Every generation blames the generation before them.

  Mutabaruka

  Generations

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• Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Sheep, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi (1944*). “Gandhi Against Fascism”

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• If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Depressing, Praise, Calvary

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• One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Responsibility, Creating, Long

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 21, 2016

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• An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Journey, Best Effort, Obstacles

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• I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

  Leon Spinks

  Boxing, Wanted, Ifs

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