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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 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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• I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Heart, Maintenance, Republic

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• The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.

  Keanu Reeves

  Karma, Hands, Law

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• I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For most businesses there are both compelling reasons to be responsible and compelling statistics that validate that responsible businesses do better according to traditional financial metrics. Of course, how you define "responsible" is somewhat of a conundrum.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it

  M. Anthony Burns

  Business, Mean, Way

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase - the pursuit of happiness - is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Happiness, People, Phrases

  "Woman's Hour" on the BBC, October 05, 1965.

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• The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Agency, Looks

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• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  War, Food, Wine

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 14, 1799.

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• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.

  Jennifer Garner

  Smile, Mother, Sunset

  "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Desire, Acting, Actors

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• My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

  Pauly Shore

  Mom, Careers, Two

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• F**king Jews...the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.

  Mel Gibson

  Kings, War, World

  "Why Hollywood finally forgave Mel Gibson at the 2017 Oscars" by Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. February 27, 2017.

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• God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

  Seth Green

  Ideas, Action, Deny

  "Is there a God?". Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2000.

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• Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Laughing, Feelings

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• Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.

  Will Smith

  Evil, Killers, Vicious

  "Will Smith Explains Hitler Quote" by Karen Salkin, people.com. December 26, 2007.

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• It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, Drunk, Knows

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1575, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

  Jon Lovitz

  Thinking, People, Loan

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 8, 2012.

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• People don’t find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have — don’t find their personal lives interesting. I think if you put the lives of people who controlled billions of dollars on the front news of every single paper, the world would be a better place. It’s the spin culture. If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they’d have to be responsible for their words.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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

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• I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Home, Three, Roles

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• I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.

  Peter Fonda

  Roles, Kind, Knows

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• I believe the earth gets warmer, and I also believe the earth gets cooler, and I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man through the production of CO2 which is a trace gas in the atmosphere and the manmade part of that trace gas is itself a trace gas is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd when you consider all of the other factors.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 8, 2011.

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• If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Impact, Responsible Business

  "Santorum: Google spreads 'filth'" by Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

  Dionne Warwick

  Opportunity, Years, Waiting

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