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• I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

  Susan Orlean

  Book, Borders, Feels

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

  Suze Orman

  Children, Growing Up, Chance

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• Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

  Blaise Pascal

  Desire, Our Actions, Causes

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• If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Spokes, Publicists

  "Robert Pattinson Interviews on 'GMA,' Jodie Foster Defends Kristen Stewart" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 15, 2012.

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• A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

  Henry Paulson

  Running, Impact, Agency

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• Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think about the interests of others, not just themselves? And the story of Western politics since the beginning of the century is that as elites become more separated, more selfish, as they leave behind their populations and don't think about them, they become discredited. And the people look for alternatives. But the alternative is worse. Those rules of the game protect us all. And they are more precious than almost any political outcome.

  David Frum

  Selfish, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.

  David Icke

  Panic, Administration, Bail

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• Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so it is morally and politically correct that the developed world who made this climate change be responsible by providing financial support and technological support to these people.

  Ban Ki-moon

  People, Support, Climate

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• I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Regret, Lectures

  Alfred North Whitehead (1920). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919”, Cambridge University Press

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• Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love, African American, Knows

  Nikki Giovanni (1975). “The women and the men”, William Morrow &Company

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• Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Compassion, Dedication

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.425, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources, are of Christian origin. What impression can our African and Asian brethren and the masses in Latin America have of Christianity, if the tree is to be judged by its fruits? For we Christians are largely responsible for the unjust world in which we live.

  Hélder Câmara

  Christian, Latin, Responsibility

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• I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

  Antony Burgmans

  Believe, Challenges, Inspire

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• Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.

  Jacques Chirac

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is development." And I said, "That is not development, definitely not sustainable development, definitely not responsible development. People need fresh air. They can do without buildings. They can do without concrete. But they cannot do without fresh air.

  Wangari Maathai

  Children, Air, Play

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• Congress is responsible for every major change in India

  Sonia Gandhi

  India, Congress, Major Change

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• I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?

  Stephen Colbert

  Responsibility, Fighting, Challenges

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• The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the military spending of all other countries in the world combined.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Crazy, Military

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• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Nice, Heart

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• The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

  Joel Stein

  Army, Order, People

  "Warriors and wusses". articles.latimes.com. January 24, 2006.

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