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• Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

  John Berryman

  Vanity, Self, Pity

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• Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Doe

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• I have wished a bird would fly away,
  And not sing by my house all day;
  Have clapped my hands at him from the door
  When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
  The fault must partly have been in me.
  The bird was not to blame for his key.
  And of course there must be something wrong
  In wanting to silence any song.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Keys, Doors

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.331, Harvard University Press

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• If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

  Ron Wyden

  Games, Care, Program

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• You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

  Vince McMahon

  Country, Opportunity, People

  "Meltzer says he hears HHH and Vince got beef", rebrn.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Mean, Intelligent

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• I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

  Jane Siberry

  Istanbul, Games, Australia

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• When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industries—it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.

  Donald A. Norman

  Doors, Electronics, Faults

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Introduction to the 2002 Edition, p. x, 2002.

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• I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.

  Simon Munnery

  African American, Individual

  "Attention Scum". TV Series, 2001.

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• We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.

  Scott Cunningham

  Fate, Creating, Evil

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.17, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Sex, Believe, Issues

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• I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.

  Hal Riney

  Tyrants, Firsts, Chance

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• He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

  Publilius Syrus

  Failure, Sea, Foolish

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• Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.

  Stephanie Klein

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• The word 'hate' is a very carefully chosen word. There's got to be a real sense of revulsion and disgust. People are looking for someone to blame, someone who's the cause of their problems, and it should be the gun industry. These guys are the living embodiment of the slogan, 'Guns don't kill people-people kill people'. They're complete mercenaries.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Hate, Real, Gun

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• Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hurt

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• I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Compassion, Race

  Oscar Speech, www.oscarworld.net. 1993.

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• If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

  Wayne Dyer

  Order, Waiting, Get Better

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• When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  About Yourself, Criticize, Avoiding

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Sep 06, 2011

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• All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

  Peter Block

  Commitment, Responsibility, Problem

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• People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Moving, Responsibility

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Promises for Your Week”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don’t carry weight anymore.

  Penelope Douglas

  Choices, Weight, Excuse

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• Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Betrayal, Learning

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• The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Abandon, Response

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• Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

  Ralph Marston

  Responsibility, Inspire, Obstacles

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