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• Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Puppets, Chance

  "Notes on Music and Opera". Essay by W. H. Auden, published in his book "The Dyer's Hand" (p. 471), 1963.

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Average, Bmw, Two

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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• Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

  Jacques Chirac

  Europe, Joining, Way

  "Chirac Lashes Out at 'New Europe'". edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2003.

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• All racists are irresponsible.

  James A. Baldwin

  Race, Racism, Racist

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• I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

  Danielle Steel

  Eggs, Chocolate, Mets

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• We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Real

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• You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

  George Carlin

  Science, Dna, Space

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Thinking, Guy, Nuclear

  "Israel's 'bomb in the basement'" by John Vause, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2004.

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• I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

  Jeff Miller

  Thinking, Florida, People

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• I want to get out in the community and make sure everyone knows I'm not some renegade driver that's out there and irresponsible and reckless. I really think this is just a one-time thing. You live and learn. If you do the crime, you do the time, so to speak. With that said, I got a lot going for me. I got a great job, a great career, a great family. This is just a little bump in the road. My spirit's not broke. I'm not down and out by any means.

  Jayson Werth

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents - number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome - so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back. [That's] $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Men, Numbers

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• You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Giving, Guilty

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.

  Krist Novoselic

  Party, Thinking, Culture

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• You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure.

  Michael Medved

  Sex, Struggle, Kids

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• If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.

  Sheri Holman

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Selfish, Taken, Heart

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

  Henry Cloud

  Painful, Persons, Confronting

  "Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No". Book by Henry Cloud, September 9, 2008.

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• It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Alternatives, Attention, Tonight

  "The Other America". Speech Grosse Pointe High School, www.gphistorical.org. March 14, 1968.

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• Gossip is irresponsible communication.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Communication, Gossip

  Rita Mae Brown (1976). “A plain brown rapper”, Diana Pr

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• the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

  Agnes Repplier

  Actors, Littles, Theater

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• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  Larry Elder

  War, Stupid, People

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.253, Macmillan

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• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  Nathan Fillion

  Real, Thinking, Blood

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Lying, Mean, Acceptance

  "A Gleeful Splash of Ogden Nash" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. May 08, 2005.

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• Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  War, People, Mind

  "Russian Roulette : The Superpower Game" by Arthur M. Cox, (p. 10), 1982.

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• I personally do not believe I'm irresponsible. Everything I do revolves around my children.

  Nadya Suleman

  Children, Believe, My Children

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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