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• Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive.

  Philip Yancey

  Forgiveness, Pain, Animal

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• Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. Neither Israel's policies nor the critics of those policies should be held responsible for anti-Semitism. At the same time, I do believe that attitudes toward Israel are influenced by Israel's policies, and attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views.

  George Soros

  Attitude, Believe, Israel

  "On Israel, America and AIPAC" by George Soros, www.nybooks.com. April 12, 2007.

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• There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Soul, Individuality

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.287

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• I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

  Patti LaBelle

  Funny, Humorous, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 24, 2013

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• Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it.

  Joel Surnow

  Life, World, Sometimes

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• Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving On, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 02, 2011

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• The things that scare me are real life situations. Real life is much more scary than anything you can put on the movie screen. Which is why I get very upset when people try to blame the movies for the violence in this world. I'm like 'Are you kidding me?'. There is more violence in a four hour period on CNN than any movie I have in my massive collection.

  Corey Taylor

  Real, Cnn, People

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• When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Advice, Blame Someone, Want

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1709, Random House

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• Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

  Robert Wright

  Behavior, Force, Harder

  Robert Wright (1994). “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life”, Pantheon

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• I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

  Georges Bataille

  Despair, Innocence, Sin

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

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• The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Political, Middle East

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• The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Desire, Complaining, Culture

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The World According to Bertie”, p.19, Anchor

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• Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Athlete, Self

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• I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

  Colson Whitehead

  Children, Technology, Clouds

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• Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Men, People, Islam

  Khalid ibn al-Walid's letter to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III, as quoted in John Clark Ridpath "History of the World, Volume IV (Book XII: The Mohammedan Ascendency, p. 463), 1910.

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• Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, America, People

  "Elizabeth Warren Picks A Fight With Paul Ryan" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2014.

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• People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!

  Ward Churchill

  People, Ems, Nazi

  "Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left". Ward Churchill's Speech in Oakland, California, November 16, 2001.

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• Tis true, my form is something odd
  but blaming me, is blaming God,
  Could I create myself anew
  I would not fail in pleasing you.

  Joseph Merrick

  Odd, Form, Elephant Man

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• I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Believe, Mean

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• I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Stupid, People, United States

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• It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.

  Alex Jones

  Names, Mad, Fake

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• In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own wife. And vise versa. That'll be normal in the New World - different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need. I'll push my own buttons and right my own wrongs. You'll wake yourself up and sing your won songs.

  Rob Brezsny

  Song, Ignorance, Giving

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• Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
  We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
  Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind,
  And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Party, Mind

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• There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.

  Chris Christie

  House, Suffering, Majority

  "Christie lambasts House Republicans over Sandy bill: 'Shame on Congress'" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.

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• I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after I hit 29 home runs and drove in 92 RBIs, and I think those (steroid-aided home run hitters) are partly to blame.

  Frank Thomas

  Running, Home, Thinking

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