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• They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

  Al Sharpton

  Gay, Constitution, Adultery

  "Sharpton Pledges Fight Against Homophobia Among Blacks" by Jamal Watson, New York Sun, August 3, 2005.

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• To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Irvin D. Yalom (1980). “Existential Psychotherapy”, p.357, Basic Books

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• I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

  Cesar Pelli

  Cities, Design, Trying

  César Pelli (1999). “Observations for young architects”, Monacelli Pr

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• This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Britain And America, Historical, Degrees

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• Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?

  Boris Johnson

  War, Order, Russia

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• I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to trail Mehan Asnik, a suspected terrorist, through the streets of London. He had escaped from our security services while infected with a plague virus. Tracking him on CCTV, I swear I had him but then, in the rush-hour bustle, lost him. When the secure mobile rang, it was Harry Pearce at Thames House, chewing me out for the slaughter that had been caused by my mistake.

  Mark Lawson

  Mistake, Yesterday, House

  "TV matters: Spooks Interactive" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Winning, Talking, Boxing

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own success (or failure). Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach. Prevention of failure is an important part of that process.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Winning, People, Important

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• Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

  William J. Clinton

  Play, Working Together, Roles

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• You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.223, Hay House, Inc

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• Clean your freakin' fryer. Be responsible for Christ's sake!

  Jon Taffer

  Sake, Christ, Clean

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• Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

  Tony Blair

  Wmd, Should Have, Forgiving

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• The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

  Andrew Sullivan

  Party, Men, Legacy

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• There is nothing wrong with anger. Anger is a beautiful emotion, as valid and rich as joy or laughter. But you have been taught to repress your anger. Your anger has been condemned. If anger is unexpressed, it will slowly poison you. The key is to know how to express your anger. Do not throw it out onto any one. No one is responsible for your anger. Simply express your anger. Beat up a cushion. Go for a run. Express your anger to a tree. Dance your anger. Enjoy it.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Beautiful, Running, Laughter

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• Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.

  Barbara Johnson

  Attitude, Keys, Play

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.79, Zondervan

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• Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Integrity, Law, Political

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.191, Penguin

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• We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it. Collectively, we can unite and bring about a powerful change in the world. By working to raise our awareness to the highest possible level of spiritual understanding, we can begin to heal ourselves, then each other and the world.

  Betty Eadie

  Spiritual, Powerful, Unique

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• We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Long, Age

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.46, Fig

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• People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

  Carl Paladino

  Government, People, Want

  "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.

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• On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Husband, Men

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

  John Updike

  Art, Book, Home

  John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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• Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Two

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

  Sydney Pollack

  Directors, Becoming, Lancaster

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• But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

  Georges Cuvier

  Sea, Upset, Earth

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• If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable.

  Huston Smith

  America, Ears, Today

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