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• Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

  Courtney Love

  Song, Guitar, Decision

  "An open letter from the Cobain family", www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2001.

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• When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too easy:) It is a responsibility made less easy by people I work with encouraging me to play guitar on their record...A soon as I start playing guitar on someone's record it inevitably starts to sound like me...not always a good thing.

  Robin Guthrie

  Guitar, Play, People

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• Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.

  Jacob Gelt Dekker

  Thinking, Air, Breathing

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• ...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Guilt, Share

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

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• In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Children, Believe

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.50, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

  Shari Arison

  Long, Greed, Humanity

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• I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

  Eddie Marsan

  Kids, Wife, Worry

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• With freedom comes responsibility

  Jesse Ventura

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• Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it?

  Zig Ziglar

  Purpose, Humans, Knows

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 13, 2013

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• That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.' Freedom is a responsibility. We think freedom means do nothing, don't be responsible for your actions.... I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.

  Aaron Tippin

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

  Radhanath Swami

  Great Responsibility

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• When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.

  Radhanath Swami

  Accepting, Position

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• Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

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• The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

  Alvin Toffler

  Lying, Teaching, Mind

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• Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Doe, Mankind, Humans

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• Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

  Napoleon Hill

  Demand, Moral, Assuming

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.

  Tim Kimmel

  Jobs, Parent, Temporary

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• So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Yes We Can, Looks

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.

  John Dewey

  Mind, Adequate, Sake

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• The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

  Anne Applebaum

  Honesty, Hard Work, Healthy

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• It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Blessed, Practice

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

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• The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.

  Edgar Cayce

  Ability, More Knowledge

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• Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions, command effectively and so exercise power. But their role first of all is to be a person to whom others can turn for help and advice, to provide security, to affirm, to support, to encourage and to guide.

  Jean Vanier

  Exercise, People, Support

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• Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, Ethical Issues, Talking

  "Why 'Free Software' Is Better Than 'Open Source'". www.gnu.org. 1998.

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• I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.

  Hyman Rickover

  Teacher, Men, Thinking

  "Energy Resources and Our Future". Remarks at a Banquet of the Annual Scientific Assembly of the Minnesota State Medical Association, www.resilience.org. May 14, 1957.

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