"You cannot solve a problem by condemning it"
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"When we have blamed the wind we can blame love."
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"I am asked often about Abraham Lincoln's mistakes and faults; he certainly made some mistakes. I have chapter in President Lincoln about the Powhatan affair that was a royal screw-up in the early days - right alongside the Sumter affair. Lincoln signed letters he should not signed, and the ship was sent to two places at one under two captains etc. Fortunately, no great harm. Lincoln took the blame and did not do anything like that again."
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"Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame."
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"For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone."
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"Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is."
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"...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay."
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"Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat."
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"Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion."
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"I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either."
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"How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?"
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"What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism."
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"I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either."
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"To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us."
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"Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver"
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"You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good."
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"Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us."
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"Is God to blame for what I myself have done?"
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"If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame."
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"When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes."
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