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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
Oliver North
Tags: Will Which Am
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Barbara Jordan
Tags: Good Us Each
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
Jules Verne
Tags: Life Know Which
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Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.


Eric Schneiderman
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Sarah Fielding
Tags: Our Them Things
During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
Bob Beauprez
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My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility. I did not advise the prime minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before or after the fact.
Nigel S. Wright
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I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.


Jane Byrne
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
Ralph Thomas Walker
You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
Joy Page
Tags: Power You Life
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson
Tags: Power Which Able
War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
Robert Runcie
Tags: God War Love
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver
The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.
Shinzo Abe
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Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.


Jean Vanier
Tags: Our Own Accept
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
Jeremy Clarkson
Tags: You Because Life
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
Mitchell Baker
Tags: You People About
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My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.


James Heckman
Tags: Family Life Deep
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
David McCullough
We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
Ed Miliband
Tags: Our Never World