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Responsibility Quotes
"And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it."
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"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."
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"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
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"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?""I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."
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"Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money."
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"We took our eye off the ball as a company."
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"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do."
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"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."
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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."
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"I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there."
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"In dreams begins responsiblities."
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"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."
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"We should each be a carrier of the Kingdom."
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"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"
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"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
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"As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role."
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"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."
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"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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"It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves."
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"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."
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"I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist."
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"We all pay for our choices."
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"And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done."
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"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic."
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"Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks."
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"There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me."
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"I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life."
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"Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."
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"It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country."
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"Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow."
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"I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman."
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"A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes."
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"Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future."
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"I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy."
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"I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses."
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"We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand."
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"I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers."
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"I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real."
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"Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight."
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"But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here."
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"A man is responsible for his ignorance."
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"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."
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"You are responsibility of your life."
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"Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility."
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"I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do."
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"A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out."
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"She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like the look of it, which was unsurprising as the oven and the wall were black. Mrs Winterson replied, 'It's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.' That is a heavy load for a gas oven to bear. She liked that phrase and it was more than once used towards me; when some well-wisher asked how I was, Mrs W looked down and sighed, 'She's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.'This was even worse for me than it had been for the gas oven. I was particularly worried about the 'dead' part, and wondered which buried and unfortunate relative I had so offended."
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"At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility."
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