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No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly alway...

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Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself an...

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What are you?''I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a b...

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I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - y...

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there's plenty of blame to go around.

I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, h...

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I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me ...

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Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she...

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What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked."I don't see where blaming me for thi...

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The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radica...

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Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence...

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We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pa...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

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Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

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Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil e...

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Thomas SowellBasic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co...

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Tim O'Brien (author)The Things They Carried

We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external ene...

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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately i...

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I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t li...

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Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I f...

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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...

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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. A...

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I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breakin...

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

No one is to blame because there is no one other than you. Nothing is to disrespect because there is...

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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has a...

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These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very ...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted...

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It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is d...

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After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our familie...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known,...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If ...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injur...

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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how ...

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No one blames her.""That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

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Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera: "Back to Basics"

Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; th...

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It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowled...

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Connie WillisThe Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see...

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We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our s...

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and pass...

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The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division w...

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Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as ...

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Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? Th...

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The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the in...

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To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pri...

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Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's...

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I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my ...

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Glenn BeckThe 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

They ought not to have let things come to this," he said, but he was never very clear even to himsel...

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Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences...

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Herman MelvilleMardi and a Voyage Thither

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...

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The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.

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Ian McDonaldThe Dervish House

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be...

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Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, t...

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Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a perso...

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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else ...

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him...

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The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be see...

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Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't l...

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Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience wit...

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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in ea...

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Silence rolled at me, in

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to...

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Karen HorneyNeurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certai...

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Ken KeseySometimes a Great Notion

trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of ...

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It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for eve...

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Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not...

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This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Co...

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Whatever it was, she knew she would not be blamed for it, she was blameless. But what use had that b...

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In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are const...

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She knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were vo...

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After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands fro...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strik...

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame...

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They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think ...

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Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think ...

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Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think ...

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Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think ...

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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least t...

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