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"You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!" Douglas Noel Adams 4.5417 average rating  
"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 4.6250 average rating  
"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." Louis K. Anspacher 4.4583 average rating  
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." Louis 4.6800 average rating  
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself." Richard David Bach 4.7059 average rating  
"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. 1.3182 average rating  
"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 3.7778 average rating  
"There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities." Paxton Blair 4.7500 average rating  
"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 4.4375 average rating  
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4.8571 average rating  
"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 3.3333 average rating  
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." George Burns 4.5667 average rating  
"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 5.0000 average rating  
"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 3.7500 average rating  
"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. 4.5000 average rating  
"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 4.0000 average rating  
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill 4.5926 average rating  
"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 4.5333 average rating  
"[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 4.5000 average rating  
"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 4.3571 average rating  
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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


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