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• The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

  Mark V. Hurd

  Blame Someone, Use, Easier

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being..... doing.... having, or feeling.

  Susan Jeffers

  Mean, Responsibility, Feelings

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• You simply cannot blame anyone or anything for causing you to be, think or respond in a certain way.

  Marshall Sylver

  Thinking, Way, Certain

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• When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Humility, Buddhism

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• There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Dues, Ifs

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• Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Blame Someone, Needs

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• The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

  Don Shula

  Wrestling, Men, Inferiority

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• I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

  Tom Sizemore

  Mirrors, People, Tears

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• In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Hate, People

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• One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Responsibility, People

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• You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, Want

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• Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

  Orrin Woodward

  Leader, Quitting

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• When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

  Jeff Olson

  Responsibility, Fate, Hands

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• What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

  Seth Godin

  People, Criticism

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.46, Penguin

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• Blame it on Peer Pressure.

  John Marsden

  Pressure, Peer Pressure, Peers

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

  Aesop

  Delay, Sometimes, Active

  Aesop (2000). “Aesop's fables”

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• Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

  Seth Godin

  Broken, Hook, Firsts

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• Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.75, Vivekananda Kendra

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• It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of China. But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.

  David Brooks

  Simple, Would Be, Rise Of China

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• He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris

  Gena Showalter

  Wind, Funny Things, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.31, HQN Books

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• There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Responsibility, Self

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• Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
  I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was, 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath'. For three years my husband and I slept on bunk beds.
  I'm a double bagger. Not only does my husband put a bag over my face when we're making love, but he also puts a bag over his head in case mine falls off.
  It's so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom.
  My best birth control now is to leave the lights on.

  Joan Rivers

  Mother, Sex, Pain

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• The next time you face a customer who has every right to be upset, say something like this: 'I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were you, I'd feel exactly the same way. What would you like for me to do?' These are magical, healing words, and you'll be surprised at how reasonable people become when they believe you are on their side.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Believe, Healing, People

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• Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Enemy, Waste, Wasting Time

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2014). “Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)”, p.120, Random House Books for Young Readers

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