"It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand."
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"Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?"
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"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."
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"Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness."
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"Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!"
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"The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in."
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"Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump."
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"No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."
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"It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility."
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"I don't associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution."
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"If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone."
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"You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging."
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"Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us."
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"I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise."
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"Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay."
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"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache."
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"Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming."
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"Blame is safer than praise"
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"We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes."
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"Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame."
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