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• There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

  Christian Finnegan

  Disappointment, External Forces, Faster

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• A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

  John Naughton

  Loyalty, Powerful, Intelligent

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• The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

  Kieran Culkin

  Divorce, Hollywood, Problem

  "The Young And `The Mighty' / Youthful stars Culkin and Henson are veterans of showbiz". Interview with Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. October 11, 1998.

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• Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Mean, Play, Judging

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will.

  Bo Sanchez

  Spiritual, Jobs, Lunch

  Bo Sanchez “You Have The Power To Create Love”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.

  Tom Krause

  Games, Play, Choices

  Tom Krause, “Choices”

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• Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Responsibility, Might, Easier

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• I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Sleep, Agreement, Ak 47

  "AK-47 Inventor Says Conscience Is Clear" by Joel Roberts, www.cbsnews.com. July 6, 2007.

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• Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.

  Larry Winget

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

  Larry Winget (2011). “Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Believe, Thinking, Growth

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• I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help matters.

  Zach Braff

  Gob, Want, Matter

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• I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

  Zach Braff

  Voice, Actors, Wells

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• When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

  Josei Toda

  Inspirational, Sad, Past

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• If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Risk, Breakthrough

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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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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• 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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• You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

  Bum Phillips

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Book, Israel

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

  James Madison

  Respect, Character, Numbers

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!

  Eric Thomas

  Life, Motivational, Mirrors

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• Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Father, Men

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire"

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• Look what you created, only got yourself to blame, I remember when you hated

  Drake

  Happy, Looks, Remember

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