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• Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

  Brené Brown

  Painful Feelings, Self, Perfect

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.111, Penguin

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• If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Real, Grief

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• The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Needs, Auditors

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.384, Random House

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• Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Feelings, Awareness

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.14, Harmony

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• Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Fashion, Crazy, Shoes

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings”, p.25, Bantam Classics

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• He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

  E. M. Forster

  Crush, Real, Adventure

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

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• Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Flower, Chance

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Guilt, Matter, Lost Souls

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

  Megan McCafferty

  Mistake, Credit, Done

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• No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

  Jose Rizal

  Fall, Blow, Ducks

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.278, BookBaby

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• You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

  Melina Marchetta

  Jobs, Needs, Blame Me

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• You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Mountain, Boulders

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• They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Breathing, Gold, Be Good

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.

  Sri Chinmoy

  World, Solutions

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• Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupidity, Killing, Fine

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• A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer: "Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

  Kristin Cashore

  Archer, Fire, Feelings

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• Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.

  Sarah Wylie

  Cancer, People, Naming Things

  Sarah Wylie (2012). “All These Lives”, p.67, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

  Patricia Briggs

  Evil People, Action, Responsible

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.147, Penguin

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• Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You can let that rule your whole life or you can put it behind you and move on. Only a madman lets jealousy determine the course of his existence. Only a weak man blames others for his own errors.

  Juliet Marillier

  Moving, Men, Weak Man

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• There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

  Samuel Beckett

  Men, Shoes, Feet

  1955 Waiting for Godot, act1.

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• The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it’s a wonder anyone would want to continue reading.

  Richard Siken

  Reading, Long, Bird

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• You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

  Bum Phillips

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Book, Israel

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

  James Madison

  Respect, Character, Numbers

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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