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• You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Childhood, Fixing, Adults

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• Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Responsible, Scope, Ability

  "Country Living and Country Thinking, Men and Women". Book by Gail Hamilton, 1871.

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• As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

  Paul Wellstone

  Community, Political, Democracy

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• A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

  William James

  Men, Stronger, Ethics

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

  Coretta Scott King

  Believe, Rights, Racism

  "Shadow in the Land : Homosexuality in America" by William Dannemeyer, (p. 148), 1989.

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• Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

  Janet Morris

  Real, Past, Alive

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.173, Paradise Publishing

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• There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

  Janet Morris

  Battle, Unrighteousness, Endless

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.7, Paradise Publishing

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• We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

  Janet Morris

  Hurt, Today, Helping

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.15, Paradise Publishing

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• The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Political, Allies, Needs

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• You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Years, Trying, Haunting

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• I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

  Kenneth Lay

  Mistake, Criminals, Good And Bad

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• The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Senior, People, Dozen

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• I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Self Responsibility

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• I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Soul, Generations, World

  Oskar Kokoschka, Marlborough Gallery (1981). “Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition”

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• I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.

  Pierre Coupey

  Art, Thinking, Long

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• What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

  Huston Smith

  Gratitude, Future, Past

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.

  Karan Casey

  Time, Empowering, Feelings

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• we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

  Darren Main

  Pushing, Problem, Masters

  Darren Main (2003). “Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspiring, Success, Entrepreneur

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.24, Penguin

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• Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

  A. G. Gaston

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• What you do comes from what you think.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Personal Responsibility

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• You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 26, 2013

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• The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

  Saint Boniface

  Inspirational, Stress, Wave Of Life

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• The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that of teacher and scholar. In fact, it should partake of the nature of the relationship between father and son, to the extent that officers, especially commanding officers, are responsible for the physical, mental, and moral welfare, as well as the discipline and military training of the young men under their command.

  John A. Lejeune

  Inspirational, Relationship, Teacher

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