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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

  David Cronenberg

  Artist, Thinking, Two

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• Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Thinking, Decision, Experience

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• A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slipbackward -- we may actually be backing up to get a runningstart.

  Dan Millman

  Warrior, Men, Average

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• Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Football, Bears, Mass

  "Nietzsche, Camus, Grass - the dream team" by Mark Perryman, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2006.

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• When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Fighting, People

  "Advocate Queen" by Donna Henes, www.beliefnet.com. September 2017.

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• In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Teamwork, Business

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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  Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Business

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)”, p.20, Read Books Ltd

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• Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have any responsibility for the preservation of a decent balance in nature, for the preservation of rare species, or even for the indefinite continuance of his race?

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Men, Race, Balance

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• Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Reason

  "The Virtue of Selfishness".

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• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.

  Sara Genn

  Responsible

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• In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Self Improvement, Analysis, Lasts

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Advice

  "Responsibilities". Book by William Butler Yeats. Epigraph, 1914.

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• Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.

  William J. Clinton

  Fighting, Differences, Community

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• Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

  Gary Snyder

  Environmental, Blue Planet, Earth

  Gary Snyder (1974). “Turtle Island”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Artist, Drawing, Matter

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• All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Men, Ifs

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• Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Jobs, Lying

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Humanity, Charity

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• Duty is what one expects from others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ethics, Duty

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.127, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

  Natalie Portman

  Peace, Helping Others, Our Generation

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• It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

  Stephanie Mills

  Artist, Discipline, Work Out

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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• All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Business, Men, Fulfilling

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