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"There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering."
"If you think that you are less than them, can you blame them for thinking they are better?"
"I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils"
"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
"I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life."
"Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it."
"If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men."
"Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress."
"You have yourself to blame."
"All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression."
"You must send blame out of your life for any conditions of your life."
"You cannot blame everything on the enemy."
"Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself."
"I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada."
"But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see."
"I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it."
"Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you."
"How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend."
"I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding."
"What is life? A continuous praise and blame."
