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"A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready."	Lawrence Downs
"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'"	Stephen Crane
"A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it."	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
"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
"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."	Donald Robert Perry Marquis
"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted."	Eric Idle
"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs."	Joan Didion
"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe."	Christine Lane
"Duty is what one expects from others."	Oscar Wilde
"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."	Napolean Hill
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him."	Booker T. Washington
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."	Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity."	Kahlil Gibran
"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."	Albert Einstein
"I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do."	Oliver L. North
"I am responsible only to God and history."	Francisco "El Caudillo" Franco
"I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day."	William Gordon
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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