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• The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Real, One Day At A Time, Today

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.31, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Moral, Individual

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command to heed: "Follow Me." (John 21:20-22)

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Issues, Faithfulness

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• No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Suffering, World

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• God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Eye, Profound, Saint

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• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

  Patricia Briggs

  Evil People, Action, Blame

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.147, Penguin

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• We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

  Julian Barnes

  Safe, Way, Mature

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

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• How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?

  Richelle Mead

  People, Feelings, Details

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.89, Penguin

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• The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Want, Facts, Losing

  "No Way Out: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti". Book edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty and Anthony Paul Frank Naronha (Chapter 7: What Kind Of Human Being Do You Want?), 2002.

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• Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don’t start passing around the Marrok’s advice as if he were Confucius.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sorry, Evil People, Long

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.147, Penguin

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• I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

  John Green

  Want

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• We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

  Adrienne Rich

  Moving, Our Words, Privilege

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

  Epictetus

  Fate, Self, Cities

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• I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.

  David Levithan

  Guarantees That, People, Gone

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.18, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Views, Roles

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• I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.

  Roland Barthes

  Absence, Worldliness

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Children, Acceptance

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sacrifice, Evil, Misunderstood

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• We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Political, Promise

  Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.92, Routledge

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• Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

  Jim Butcher

  Smart, Stupid, Camels

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• Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Giving, Reap

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• We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Character, Mean

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• You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.

  Steve Pavlina

  Money, Responsibility, Firsts

  "Living Paycheck to Paycheck". www.stevepavlina.com. March 5, 2009.

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• Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."

  Philip Schuyler

  Philosophy, Self, People

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