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People have forgotten this truth, " the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.Unknown
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People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.Katja Millay
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Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.Roy T. Bennett
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If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.Steve Maraboli
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Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.Joan Didion
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The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.Steve Maraboli
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To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]David McCullough
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Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.Derek Landy
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Never compromise your values.Steve Maraboli
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.Toni Morrison
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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You don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your ownKerry E. Wagner
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We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.Camille Paglia
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And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.Unknown
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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.Elie Wiesel
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The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.Steve Maraboli
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I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.Brandon Sanderson
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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.Max Stirner
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I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.Mark R. Levin
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If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .Unknown
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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100, 000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100, 000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100, 000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98, 000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98, 000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks 'That's enough of that. It's time to intervene, ' and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don't lets appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person. Why am I glad this is the case? To get to the point of the wrongness of Christianity, because I think the teachings of Christianity are immoral. The central one is the most immoral of all, and that is the one of vicarious redemption. You can throw your sins onto somebody else, vulgarly known as scapegoating. In fact, originating as scapegoating in the same area, the same desert. I can pay your debt if I love you. I can serve your term in prison if I love you very much. I can volunteer to do that. I can't take your sins away, because I can't abolish your responsibility, and I shouldn't offer to do so. Your responsibility has to stay with you. There's no vicarious redemption. There very probably, in fact, is no redemption at all. It's just a part of wish-thinking, and I don't think wish-thinking is good for people either. It even manages to pollute the central question, the word I just employed, the most important word of all: the word love, by making love compulsory, by saying you MUST love. You must love your neighbour as yourself, something you can't actually do. You'll always fall short, so you can always be found guilty. By saying you must love someone who you also must fear. That's to say a supreme being, an eternal father, someone of whom you must be afraid, but you must love him, too. If you fail in this duty, you're again a wretched sinner. This is not mentally or morally or intellectually healthy. And that brings me to the final objection - I'll condense it, Dr. Orlafsky - which is, this is a totalitarian system. If there was a God who could do these things and demand these things of us, and he was eternal and unchanging, we'd be living under a dictatorship from which there is no appeal, and one that can never change and one that knows our thoughts and can convict us of thought crime, and condemn us to eternal punishment for actions that we are condemned in advance to be taking. All this in the round, and I could say more, it's an excellent thing that we have absolutely no reason to believe any of it to be true.Christopher Hitchens
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Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.Criss Jami
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The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.Kevin Sites
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We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right. .Suzy Kassem
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Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.Garth Stein
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.John Henry Newman
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All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.Vera Nazarian
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If that type of bad God did exist, then we could go on living in good health. If we could push the responsibility for our misery onto God, then we would have that much more peace of mind, wouldn't we?Tatsuhiko Takimoto
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Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.Surgeo Bell
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It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.Surgeo Bell
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But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.Craig Groeschel
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Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.Criss Jami
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.Alan W. Watts
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The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.Vera Nazarian
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Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.Billie Jean King
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Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences — increases your self-esteem — boosts confidence in your ability to decisions — and ultimately leads to achieve success in life.Roy T. Bennett
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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 but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - OromisChristopher Paolini
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I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.P.D. James
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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 on the spoon.Paulo Coelho
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Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.Steve Maraboli
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Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.Rodolfo Costa
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An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters.Steve Goodier
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I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.Nathaniel Branden
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Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.Steve Maraboli
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When I say maturity, I mean an inner integrity. And this inner integrity comes only when you stop making others responsible, when you stop saying that the other is creating your suffering, when you start realizing that you are the creator of your suffering. This is the first step towards maturity: I am responsible. Whatsoever is happening, it is my doing. You feel sad. Is this your doing? You will feel very much disturbed, but if you can remain with this feeling, sooner or later you will be able to stop doing many things. This is what the theory of karma is all about. You are responsible. Don’t say society is responsible, don’t say that parents are responsible, don’t say the economic conditions are responsible, don’t throw the responsibility onto anybody. YOU are responsible. .Osho
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Be smart. You Only Die Once -YODOSavania China
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I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.Petek Kabakci
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You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.Mao Dun
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Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy lifeSunday Adelaja
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Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.Alexandra Kleeman
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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.John Lennon
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He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.Laini Taylor
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How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone “reaping” than “killing”–and when one knows that death isn’t the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?Neal Shusterman
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.Ellis Peters
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There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.Amit Kalantri
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F.U.R FOCUS-URGENCY-RESPONSIBILITY--- As a team you can move mountains without any effort, simply because of our combined faith and commitment!Katlego Semusa
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It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader. Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that we are the guilty party.Umberto Eco
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The price of greatness is responsibility.Winston S. Churchill
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The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.Rob Liano
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I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves. .Christopher Hitchens
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It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man had discovered fire when lightning stuck and set a tree or two alight, but he was clumsy and greedy and stupid and could not keep the flame aliveDavid Bowles
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Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality.Ayn Rand
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I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.Jim Butcher
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When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.Iain Pears
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The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.Sunday Adelaja
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It is our responsibility to enlighten our people.Sunday Adelaja
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Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.Sunday Adelaja
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We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society.Sunday Adelaja
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Personal responsibility leads to national transformation.Sunday Adelaja
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When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.Sunday Adelaja
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God does not have any business with irresponsible people.Sunday Adelaja
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There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility.Sunday Adelaja
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When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying the high price of irresponsibility, which is often in tragedy and sorrow.Sunday Adelaja
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Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.Sunday Adelaja
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Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix.Sunday Adelaja
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If Nigeria will change for the better, then we must take responsibility for the changes in Nigeria.Sunday Adelaja
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...sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.Cecelia Ahern
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You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest qualitySunday Adelaja
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Now if we only knew what it means to know, we would be conscious.Atom Tate
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Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.T.K. Naliaka
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Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.Criss Jami
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Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.Shannon A. Thompson
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We let life down: it doesn't let us down.Marty Rubin
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Accept the fact that you are fully responsible for your career.Abhishek Ratna
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We all carry success gene within us, but its manifestation is our responsibility.Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Be brave and upright. Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed. Take the whole responsibility of your surrounding society on your own shoulders. If you consider yourself a human being, who cares for humanity, then, become a brave responsible citizen of the whole world. If not a big banyan tree, at least be like a mango tree under the shade of which a few people can rest. You are the architects of this beautiful world. Build it your way. And nourish it with your modern conscience.Abhijit Naskar
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What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that. .Tyler Perry
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Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic of those who run our culture and who are killing the planet. I answered immediately, “Power. If I’ve got power or authority over someone, it’s my responsibility to use that only to help them. It’s my job to accept and praise them into becoming who they are.Derrick Jensen
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It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.J. Grant Howard
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[S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.Nel Noddings
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As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality, is needed in our educational systems.Gregory S. Prince
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If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it.Lailah Gifty Akita
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What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen and what we desire are the same. Such a convergence obviously cannot be continuous. No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments, which give us the highest joy we can know; that of union, communion, atonement (in the root sense of at-one-ment).. To forsake all others does not mean - because it cannot mean - to ignore or neglect all others, to hide or be hidden from all others, or to desire or love no others. To live in marriage is a responsible way to live in sexuality, as to live in a household is a responsible way to live in the world. One cannot enact or fulfill one's love for womankind or mankind, or even for all the women or men to whom one is attracted. If one is to have the power and delight of one's sexuality, then the generality of instinct must be resolved in a responsible relationship to a particular person. Similarly, one cannot live in the world; that is, one cannot become, in the easy, generalizing sense with which the phrase is commonly used, a "world citizen." There can be no such think as a "global village." No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.(pg.117-118, "The Body and the Earth") .Wendell Berry
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So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was–and am–innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura DavisEllen Bass
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It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't be taken seriously.G.G. Vandagriff
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Responsibility comes with every relationship.Kenneth Eade
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If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed to what they can do for us.Vironika Tugaleva
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A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.Ogwo David Emenike