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• But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

  Laura Ingraham

  Party, People, Tea

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.

  Emanuel Ungaro

  Destiny, House, Soul

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• A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.

  Mark Driscoll

  Song, Husband, Wife

  "Mark Driscoll Answers the 'Can We Do That?' Questions in Upcoming Book" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. September 15, 2011.

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• I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

  Byron Dorgan

  Vote, Feels

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• Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

  Henry Mintzberg

  People, Community, Working Together

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• In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, Organization, People

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

  Michael Parenti

  Responsible Government, Leader, Accountability

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books

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• You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

  Louis Sachar

  Up To You, Messed Up

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.58, Yearling

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• If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be God’s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lord’s truth and of his divine justice.

  Oscar Romero

  Divine Justice, Long, People

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• I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but back to the person I used to be—strong and responsible, clear-eyed and driven, ethical and good. And the PCT would make me that way. There, I’d walk and think about my entire life. I’d find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Strong, Thinking, Different

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.

  Reinhold Messner

  Self, Mountain, Way

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• The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

  Tom Robbins

  Reality, Water, Confusion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.77, Bantam

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• If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

  Peggy Noonan

  Crazy, Insanity, Faults

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

  Bennie Thompson

  Business, Challenges, Faces

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• We felt responsible for each other. The D-line's got to take care of that line of scrimmage, (the linebackers) have got to clean up, and the safeties and DBs take care of that back end. We felt we're a brotherhood and we just had to get it done.

  Kawika Mitchell

  Safety, Brotherhood, Done

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• Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Country, Past, Years

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• Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Environmental, Energy, Needs

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• We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Spiritual, Self Improvement

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• there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable of 70 mph never trundle a smidgen over thirty. A world where alcohol never makes people drunk and is only ever consumed in moderation by responsible adults who appear to be at least 25 years old!

  Trevor Beattie

  Mph, Years, Car

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• Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

  Dusty Baker

  Sports, Past, Police

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• To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Simple, Giving, World

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• We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

  Stephen Covey

  Reality, People, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Reading, Talking, Choices

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• I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, People, United States

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.496, Library of America

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• We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Nonviolent Communication

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