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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that...

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I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

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Brandon SandersonAlcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of...

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Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injur...

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The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty...

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

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Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our na...

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It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowl...

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty ...

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I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

You’ve got a lot of responsibility now,” Jace said to Julian. “You’ll have to make sure Emma winds u...

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I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsib...

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

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I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless s...

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I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want bu...

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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility t...

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I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our ...

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When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prep...

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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure...

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In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...

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But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on...

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Craig GroeschelThe Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an u...

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Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

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Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something tha...

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Oh I could be out, rollicking in the ripeness of my flesh and others’, could be drinking things and ...

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Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to t...

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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselve...

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Power makes you lazy. Insofar as our earlier theoretical discussion of structural violence revealed ...

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Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight a...

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In the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsi...

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It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industriali...

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Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstint...

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...

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Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve...

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A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and sufferin...

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The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive o...

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Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand...

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I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner f...

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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving y...

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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhap...

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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws op...

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Responsibility is the price of freedom.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the ...

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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the ...

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...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choice...

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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...

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There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...

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That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emph...

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There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new ...

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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direc...

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All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, each soul is responsible for the world.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But ...

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Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, m...

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you ...

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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it t...

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...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executi...

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We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addit...

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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does ...

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For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We mus...

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America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech...

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Glenn BeckCowards: What Politicians

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsibl...

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I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling res...

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If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

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Gordon B. HinckleyStanding for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth a...

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Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

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Guy de MaupassantCollected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an ...

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They ought not to have let things come to this," he said, but he was never very clear even to himsel...

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There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's ...

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«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and ou...

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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

You’re afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begi...

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I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I d...

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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's...

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I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What i...

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A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because...

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Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laur...

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Howard PyleThe Story of King Arthur and His Knights

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort come...

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...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordi...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo t...

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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but...

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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves that relieves them of the...

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