"Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should."
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"To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine."
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"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"
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"It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.""
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"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."
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"Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them"
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"It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain"
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"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
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"There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us."
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"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say"
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"Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace."
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."
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"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."
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"You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun."
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"When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money."
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"The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I.""
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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
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"Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it."
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"I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility."
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