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• Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Men, Two, Boredom

  "No Way Out : Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti" by U.G. Krishnamurti, ch. 4: You Invent Your Reality, 2002.

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• Happy Friday! You're responsible for the energy of your day. Remember, when you give off positive energy, you attract it ! Decide to be Happy:)!

  Tracey Edmonds

  Friday, Giving, Positive Energy

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• You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Born, Disposition, Dies

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

  James Dobson

  Children, Discipline, People

  James C. Dobson (2014). “The New Dare to Discipline”, p.7, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar manner, responsible for their conduct, and subject him to impeachment himself, if he suffers them to perpetrate with impunity high crimes or misdemeanors against the United States, or neglects to superintend their conduct, so as to check their excesses.

  James Madison

  Thinking, Should Have, Office

  James Madison (1904). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790”

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• The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Soul, Priests

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.255, Macmillan

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• The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

  Jack Layton

  Responsibility, Government, Criminals

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• Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

  Georges Courteline

  Women, Tears, Mock

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• There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

  Cyril Connolly

  Suicide

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• An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Couple, Law, Impossible

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• It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

  Ugo Betti

  Justice, Innocent, Obvious

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

  Wendell Berry

  Hands, Action, Moved

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.61, Counterpoint Press

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• It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Suffering, Obedience

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• The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

  Stephen Spender

  Civilization, Events, Doe

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.285, Univ of California Press

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• We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.

  John Churton Collins

  Responsibility, Evil, Bird

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• What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Party, Responsibility, Ideas

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• What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

  Sam Kinison

  Bunkers

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• When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Thinking, Worry, Mouths

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• The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Religion, Changed, Ultimate

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• I no longer hold you responsible for how I feel.

  Esther Hicks

  Attitude, Feels

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• [Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. ... Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn't say 80 percent. I said 92 percent-93 percent, pardon me. And I didn't say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. ... If we are totally successful and can eliminate all the manmade oxides of nitrogen, we'll still have 93 percent as much as we have in the air today.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Fun, Successful

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• We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Involved

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as compared to those European countries in which church and state have been united, resulting in opposition to the church by those who disapprove of the government.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Wall, Government

  Alan Dershowitz (2007). “Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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• I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

  Bruce Willis

  Believe, People, Justice

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