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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the...

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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the rig...

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I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them...

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You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I...

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Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to...

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Emily looked over at Courtney. He was still asleep. For a long time she had thought that if you love...

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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of...

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A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A g...

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You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is t...

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Marianne WilliamsonA Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m...

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The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the t...

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If your faith is genuine, then you meet your responsibilities, fulfill your obligations, and wait un...

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences ...

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The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or ...

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The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deepl...

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The only people that can make peace are the parties to the conflict, and just as they are responsibl...

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He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilder...

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Mary ButtsThe Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to ...

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Massad AyoobIn the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection

Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. Tha...

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In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the “gun...

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And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a mena...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live e...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...

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What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came her...

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The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...

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You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

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Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

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When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by ...

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So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk o...

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There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot ...

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Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I d...

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Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon ...

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Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or ...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their ...

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The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For who...

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One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I wi...

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If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abju...

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I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fe...

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Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...

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I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a sc...

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Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to fur...

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The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the nobl...

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Niall FergusonCivilization: The West and the Rest

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge...

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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be...

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Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in...

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Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amou...

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I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility,...

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Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for fu...

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It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, ...

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Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anyt...

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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the ...

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The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and...

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I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphi...

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We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsib...

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What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever ...

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What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever ...

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What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever ...

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What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever ...

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The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil...

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A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone...

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Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . ....

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I'm not much but I'm all I have.

Every man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

yEvery man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space t...

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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the worl...

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Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful ...

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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

On Lou's lips a trace of pinot and out of them poured tales of acts of viciousness worthy of the gre...

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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.

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Richard BachIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for ...

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The ArmfulFor every parcel I stoop down to seizeI lose some other off my arms and knees,And the whol...

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For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is...

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Robert MusilThe Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea ...

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, t...

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Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit ...

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of respon...

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If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and wome...

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Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance mea...

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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the ne...

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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substit...

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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got...

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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or ...

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If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that;...

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, fa...

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Simone de BeauvoirThe Ethics of Ambiguity

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is on...

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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...

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Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself an...

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What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities...

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He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost alway...

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