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"You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!"	Douglas Noel Adams
"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God."	James Agee
"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."	Louis K. Anspacher
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."	Louis
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."	Richard David Bach
"Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation."	Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."	William John Bennett
"There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities."	Paxton Blair
"What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life."	Srully D. Blotnick
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility."	Giosue Borsi
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."	George Burns
"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?"	George Gordon Byron
"A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."	Albert Camus
"You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact: that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise."	John L. Casteel
"The price of greatness is responsibility."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future."	Hillary Rodham Clinton
"[Congress is] functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."	Barber B. Conable, Jr
"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre."	Frank H. Crane
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Abraham Lincoln	Albert Camus	Albert Einstein
Alexander Hamilton	Ambrose Bierce	Anthony M. Kennedy
Antonio Gramsci	Arbie M. Dale	Author Unknown
Barbara Charline Jordan	Barber B. Conable, Jr	Bill Maher
Booker T. Washington	Charles Mathias, Jr.	Christine Lane
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Donald Robert Perry Marquis	Douglas Noel Adams
Elbert Hubbard	Eric Hoffer	Eric Idle
Eugenio Montale	Francisco "El Caudillo" Franco	Frank H. Crane
Galileo Galilei	George Burns	Georges Duhamel
George Gordon Byron	Gerald W. Johnson	Giosue Borsi
Harlan Ellison	Helen Merrell Lynd	Hillary Rodham Clinton
James Agee	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Joan Didion	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John L. Casteel
J(ohn) Edgar Hoover	Kahlil Gibran	Lawrence Downs
Louis	Louis K. Anspacher	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marian Wright Edelman	Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
Mark McGee	Michael Korda	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Napolean Hill	Oliver L. North	Oscar Wilde
Paxton Blair	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard David Bach	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Srully D. Blotnick
Stanley Milgram	Stephen Crane	Thomas Jefferson
Ursula K. LeGuin	William Gordon	William John Bennett