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• Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

  Radhanath Swami

  Great Responsibility

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• When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.

  Radhanath Swami

  Accepting, Position

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• Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

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• Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.

  Radhanath Swami

  Real, Mean, Way

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• The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

  Alvin Toffler

  Lying, Teaching, Mind

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• Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Perfect, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

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• Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Doe, Mankind, Humans

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• Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

  Napoleon Hill

  Demand, Moral, Assuming

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

  Mark Steyn

  Real, Twilight, Government

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• After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Tired, People

  "Obama hails return to PAYGO" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. February 13, 2010.

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• One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Effort, Rabbits

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• My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.

  Tim Kimmel

  Jobs, Parent, Temporary

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• So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Yes We Can, Looks

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.

  John Dewey

  Mind, Adequate, Sake

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• Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.

  David Satcher

  Children, Believe, Play

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• The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

  Anne Applebaum

  Honesty, Hard Work, Healthy

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• It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Blessed, Practice

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

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• If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

  Stephen King

  Gun, Car, Owners

  "CNN Debate: What Fonda, Cuban, Nye, Stone, Jillette and Patterson want to ask". www.cnn.com. September 16, 2015.

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• The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.

  Edgar Cayce

  Ability, More Knowledge

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• Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions, command effectively and so exercise power. But their role first of all is to be a person to whom others can turn for help and advice, to provide security, to affirm, to support, to encourage and to guide.

  Jean Vanier

  Exercise, People, Support

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• The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Humble, Thinking

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• There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Self, People

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• Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, Ethical Issues, Talking

  "Why 'Free Software' Is Better Than 'Open Source'". www.gnu.org. 1998.

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• I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.

  Hyman Rickover

  Teacher, Men, Thinking

  "Energy Resources and Our Future". Remarks at a Banquet of the Annual Scientific Assembly of the Minnesota State Medical Association, www.resilience.org. May 14, 1957.

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• People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

  John Scott

  Teenager, People, Criminals

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