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• Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

  Pablo Casals

  What Matters, Talent, Vain

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• Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an “openness to the unbidden.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Love Is, Parent

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• Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

  Abraham Kuyper

  School, Exercise, Men

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division of responsibility means that the FDA is responsible for 80% of the food supply, it only gets 20% of the federal budget for this purpose. In contrast, the USDA gets 80% of the budget for 20% of the foods. This uneven distribution is the result of a little history and a lot of politics.

  Marion Nestle

  Mean, Responsibility, Animal

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• The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

  Stanley Milgram

  Views, Essence, Wish

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• The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Democracy, Dictator, Judgment

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• It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

  Jackson Pearce

  Broken, Mind, Pieces

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• When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

  Martha Brooks

  Prepared, Persons

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• If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

  Danny Wallace

  Being Responsible, Ifs

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.

  Christopher Flavin

  Years, Wind, Land

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• One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view, a critic of certain positions, an exemplar of someone trying to communicate, a purveyor of images, a practitioner of behavioral standards, a person dealing with, and indeed responsible for, others in common tasks. In teaching, at least, the role of moral agent is inescapable.

  Robert Audi

  Teacher, Teaching, Views

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• I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else’s applause. That’s a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.

  Jon Foreman

  Church, That One Person, Ends

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• The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!

  Pope Francis

  Book, Mean, Saint

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.64, Loyola Press

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• Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.

  Guy Finley

  People, Complaining, Levels

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• The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

  Ron Paul

  Decision, Principles, Individual

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• Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Trying, Matter

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from May 13, 2013

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• To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.

  Marie Forleo

  Successful, Promise, Being Successful

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2018

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• So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Hands, Safety, Preparation

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I support responsible spending, and balancing the budget, but this tax cut and the budget cuts of last month accomplish neither of these goals.

  Marty Meehan

  Cutting, Goal, Support

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• I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

  Marty Meehan

  Government, Years, Class

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• In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

  Paola Antonelli

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Responsibility

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• While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

  Paola Antonelli

  Artist, Definitions, Designer

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• My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Names, Soldier, Titles

  "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation". Speech at Sweet Briar College, gos.sbc.edu. April 02, 1993.

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• The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to be inflicted with some particular disease is solely responsible for searching the facilities to cure his illness. This is a social responsibility which is accepted by governments all over the world. This is part and parcel of the organization of individuals into societies. It is a measure of the degree of civilization.

  Toh Chin Chye

  Responsibility, Government, Civilization

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• I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for.

  Adam Kokesh

  Country, Children, Block

  "Pro-gun activist Adam Kokesh arrested after posting YouTube video". www.rt.com. July 10, 2013.

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