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• A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bankers, Sound, Investing

  "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values" (1931)

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• I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit to God, and the losers blame themselves. You know, just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.'

  Jeff Stilson

  Football, Jesus, Hate

  "Comedy Central Presents: Jeff Stilson". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Believe, Mean

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• Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
  We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
  Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind,
  And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Party, Mind

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• I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after I hit 29 home runs and drove in 92 RBIs, and I think those (steroid-aided home run hitters) are partly to blame.

  Frank Thomas

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

  Ray Comfort

  Bills, Trouble, Overdue

  "Bill Maher's Movie Mockery May Backfire". Christian Broadcasting Network, October 2, 2008.

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• Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Healing, Past

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• Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.

  Bernard Lewis

  War, Desire, Cold

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• The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Needs, Auditors

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.384, Random House

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• Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Feelings, Awareness

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.14, Harmony

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• He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

  E. M. Forster

  Crush, Real, Adventure

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

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• Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Flower, Chance

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Guilt, Matter, Lost Souls

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

  Megan McCafferty

  Mistake, Credit, Done

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• No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

  Jose Rizal

  Fall, Blow, Ducks

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.278, BookBaby

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• Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

  Tom Robbins

  Loner, Attention, Way

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• We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

  Jack Kornfield

  Struggle, Heart, Self

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.162, Random House

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• If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

  Peter King

  Military, Civilians, Ifs

  "For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past" by Scott Shane, www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2011.

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• As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Doors, Iron, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1874). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”

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• Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Gun, Focus

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• I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

  Susana Martinez

  Real, Leader, Blame Someone

  Susana Martinez RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

  Theresa May

  Tired, Government, People

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• Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

  Caroline Myss

  Recovery, Loss, Choices

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• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.

  Fidel Castro

  Thinking, Jew, Has Beens

  "Fidel Castro accuses Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of antisemitism" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2010.

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• You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, Dark, Light

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