"We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth."
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"One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame"
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"I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane."
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"Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours."
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"I know many of you are hurting and angry about the economy, and I don't blame you. It's the worst economy since the Great Depression. When consumers can't buy and businesses won't expand for lack of customers, the government has to be the purchaser and employer of last resort. We learned that in the Great Depression, but Republicans obviously didn't - and they've blocked every jobs program I've offered."
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"Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else."
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"If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it."
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"When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself."
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"Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt."
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"Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later."
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"Look what you created, only got yourself to blame, I remember when you hated"
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"Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one."
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"At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway."
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"Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes."
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"CNN’s Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that’s who we blame for Rick Sanchez."
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"I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?"
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"Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them."
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"Winners take responsibility, losers blame others."
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"Stop blaming everybody and everything for what's going on. If you really believe that you deserve better, then you would have it."
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"People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!"
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