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• Blaming women is always in fashion.

  Erica Jong

  Fashion, Women

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• It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

  Jack Gilbert

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf

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• Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon. They can blame BRAC. It's hard for voters to say this is Ortiz's fault.

  Juan Carlos I of Spain

  Voters, Way, Faults

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• The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teacher, Responsibility

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• Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

  Orrin Woodward

  Leader, Different, Responsible

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2017

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• The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Hate, Simple, And Love

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• Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

  Timothy Keller

  Life Changing, Shifting, Repentance

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• We offer you the landscape of your birth --
  Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame.
  We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth
  For killing what we cannot even name.

  Dana Gioia

  Names, Earth, Landscape

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.50, Macmillan

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• In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

  Jose Rizal

  Age, Devil, Today

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, November 11, 1892.

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• I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?

  Criss Jami

  Mother, Dream, Believe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Enemy, Realizing

  "Freedom and Tolerance". Speech at Cape Town Press Club, June 1995.

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• Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Praise, Contradiction

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.28

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• You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

  William J. Clinton

  Brain, Opponents, Losing

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• A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Drama, People, Adults

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

  Guy Ritchie

  Pounds, Video, Nerves

  Source: collider.com

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• Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Giving, People

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• Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Excuse, Should

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 39, 1799.

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• Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Average, Mind, Brain

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook K", K 39), (1789-1793).

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• It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Understanding, Praise, Ill

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Daughter, Self, Practice

  'An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification' (1787)

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• It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Weak Man, Weak

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.198, Macmillan

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• It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.

  Richard Wagner

  Law, People, Feelings

  Diary entry for November 14, 1878. "Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgment". Book edited by Geoffrey Skelton, 1994.

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• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  Pat Paulsen

  Lying, Political, Trying

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• Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust. Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out and they're working it out on your time and with your heart. Some cheaters might give you an excuse, some might not have one at all, some might even blame you. No one can tell you exactly what to do when faced with this very complicated and painful situation. But the bottom line is, is this what you had hoped for in a relationship?

  Greg Behrendt

  Cheating, Betrayal, Heart

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

  Charles Kettering

  Real, Learning, Power

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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