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• If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Wind, Keeping Secrets

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

  Anita Brookner

  Truth, Doe, Confession

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Believe, Astrology

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• Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Blow, Labels, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

  Umberto Eco

  Dream, Real, Ifs

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Character, Dishonesty

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• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

  John Keats

  Men, Criticism, Fierce

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.225, e-artnow

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• People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

  John Lydon

  People, Rotten, Poor

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• People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Wisdom, Boys

  "The Good Guys". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.

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• Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

  Susan Sontag

  Evil, Needs, Illness

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.74, Penguin UK

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• What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

  Thomas Sowell

  Western Culture, World, Praise

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

  Prince William

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

  Oscar Levant

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

  Bob Dylan

  Compassion, Cease

  Song: Angelina

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• The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Running, Men, Ideas

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

  Sandy Lyle

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Golf

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• Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

  Alexander Pope

  Bliss, Depends

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.370

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• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Confidence, Peace

  Thomas (a Kempis) (1850). “The Imitation of Christ: Four Books”, p.67

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• If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Order

  Sun Tzu (2002). “The Art of War”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• In short, luck's always to blame.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Luck

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book V". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1688.

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• You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Consistency, Wavering

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• Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

  Brian Setzer

  Tired, Nashville, Careers

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• The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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• Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Choices, Behavior

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.98, Mango Media Inc.

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• If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

  Pema Chodron

  Hate, People, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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