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• Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Work, Light

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• Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

  Kofi Annan

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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• Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Children, Responsibility

  Sir Richard Branson (2017). “Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography”, p.149, Random House

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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

  Responsibility, Years, Trying

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• I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Responsibility, Thinking, Trying

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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, Responsibility, People

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• Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex, Women, Law

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• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Men, Answers

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.110, Beacon Press

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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

  Responsibility, Scope, Ability

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

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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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• A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Integrity, Responsibility, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.66, Modern Library

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• We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on that basis unless you have large cash balances, which we don't. My concern is that the government doesn't appear to care about manufacturing.

  Ratan Tata

  Responsibility, Government, Balance

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• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Choices, Attention

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Men, Forever

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

  John Ruskin

  Rain, Individual, Flood

  "Natural Disasters Condolence Speech - Adam Bandt Discusses Natural Disasters and Climate Change". adam-bandt.greensmps.org.au. February 09, 2011.

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• I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

  Walter Anderson

  Attitude, Responsibility, May

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Spheres, Scope, Ability

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• You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.

  Russell Means

  Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

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• That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Fate, Giving, Consciousness

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• I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.

  David Korten

  Country, Communication, Responsibility

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• Each is responsible for his own actions.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  H. L. Hunt (1965). “Hunt for truth”

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• A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Educational, Responsibility

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• My life has become about trying to find effective ways to be as responsible with the choices I make - in food, clothing and everything else. I don't want to be responsible for the harm of any creature, person or animal.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Responsibility, Animal, Choices

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• We must add our voices to those who cry out that there is a standard below which we will not allow human beings to live, and that that standard is not at the freezing nor starving point....In a democracy all are responsible.

  Hannah G. Solomon

  Responsibility, Voice, Democracy

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