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• Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Ideas, Sound

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers

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• It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

  Meg Ryan

  Intuition, Wake Up, Ems

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• She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

  Andrew Card

  Approval Rating, Appreciate, Leaving

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• People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Lying, People, Marketing

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• You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

  Bernard Baruch

  Overcoming, Complaining, Economy

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• As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

  John Wooden

  Art, Long, Trying

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• Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.

  Craig Groeschel

  One Day, Credit, Increase

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• Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis god's gift. Be strong: say not the days are evil - who's to blame! And fold your hands and acquiesce - o shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely in god's name. Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong. How hard the battle goes, the day, how long! Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Dream, Song, Strong

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• And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

  Plato

  Words Of Wisdom, Use, Philosopher

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• Blame is the cowards way out.

  Elvin Hayes

  Sports, Psychology, Coward

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• A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

  William Wordsworth

  Kissing, Simple, Simplicity

  'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

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• It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

  Blaine Nye

  Work, Winning, Gambling

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• Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Excuse, Refuse

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.8, Jaico Publishing House

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• It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

  Confucius

  Kings, Anger, Army

  Confucius (1967). “Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions”

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• People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, People, Engagement

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• I'm not going to blame a referee for something I feel like I should be able to control. I should get up quicker. If you want to win fights, you just have to do it, regardless of what's going on.

  Sara McMann

  Fighting, Winning, Want

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• If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

  Grace Metalious

  Hate, War, Men

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

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• Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sorry, Humility, Way

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• There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

  Steven Morrissey

  Arrogance, Royal, Shame

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• North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

  Paul Watson

  Cat, Animal, Together

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• Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Men, Race

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• You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

  Joe Royle

  Soccer, Funny Soccer, Individual

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• Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Theatre, Triumph, Losing

  "If - " st. 1 (1910)

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• Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Adversity, Fate, Self

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