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• One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

  James A. Baldwin

  Darkness, Return, Beacons

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Intolerance, Impatience, Position

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• We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

  Michael Crichton

  Disease, Causes, Illness

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.94, Vintage

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• We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Mind, Wander

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• I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

  Anthony Holden

  Old Things, Messengers, Messages

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• You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Meat Eating

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• We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

  Francis Picabia

  Responsibility, Ignorant, Accomplish

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• I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Children, Thinking, Self

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Challenges, Aging

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• Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

  Glenn Gould

  Reality, Tradition, Honestly

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• I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.

  Halle Berry

  Responsibility, Care, Persons

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• Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.

  William Schutz

  Responsibility, Blame

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• Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

  Susan Cain

  People, Achievement, Humanity

  "Introverts Run the World - Quietly". edition.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

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• When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

  George Osborne

  Failure, People, Looks

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• We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

  Janet Reno

  Mean, Knowing, Able

  "World Today" with John Zarrella, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2000.

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• I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. I'm not one of the immature patriots who say my country right or wrong because my country is wrong now, and my country-the policies of my country are responsible for killing tens of thousands of innocent people, and I won't stand by and let that happen anymore.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Believe, Responsibility

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• Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

  Alana Beard

  Tree, Soil, Fossils

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• My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

  Fernando Alonso

  Two, Parent, Magic

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• One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

  Rodney Collin

  Waiting, Impatient, Impatience

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• You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Family, Children, Teaching

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• When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Humble, Humility, Responsibility

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• Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.

  Max Planck

  Taken, Knowledge, Responsibility

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mom, Children, Night

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the burning of heretics — Muslims in particular. Now, of course, I am not accusing the Attorney General of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases). But one does get the sense these days that the old Spaniard's spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice.

  Walter Cronkite

  Home, Law, People

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• The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Future, Reality, Accountability

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