"None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen."

Unknown, Source on action
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"Good men prefer to be accountable."

Edwardes, Michael on responsibility
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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."

Stamp, Sir Josiah on consequences
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."

Cory, Irwin on marriage   

"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable."

Moliere on responsibility
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"If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers."

Day, Doris on men
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"Responsibility is the price of greatness."

Churchill, Winston on responsibility
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"You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality."

Brown, Les on responsibility
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"Quality is everyone's responsibility."

Deming, W. Edwards on quality
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"The price of power is responsibility for the public good."

Aldrich, Withrop on power
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"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

Barthel, Mildred on happiness
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"Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell."

Hubbell on growth
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

Syrus, Publilius on eyes
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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."

Newton, Joseph Fort on duty   

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Lincoln, Abraham on responsibility
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
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"I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex."

Malkovich, John on daughters
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"Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life."

Craik, Dinah Mulock on daughters
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"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother."

Voltaire on superstition
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"He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin."

Proverb, English on mothers
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"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

Lincoln, Abraham on prayer
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"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

Balzac, Honore De on mothers
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"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together."

Buck, Pearl S. on mothers
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"What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?"

Osler, Sir William on students
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."

Ciardi, John on colleges and universities   

"Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

"A judge is a law student who grades his own papers."

Mencken, H. L. on law and lawyers
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"The world is run by C students."

Unknown, Source on education
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"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

Euripides on fathers   

"Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman."

Williams, Carey on jokes and jokers   

"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on ideals and idealism
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord."

Bible on suffering
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"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on secrets
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"A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man."

Eliot, George on mothers
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"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."

Satir, Virginia on growth
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

Frost, Robert on parents and parenting
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"A mother's heart is always with her children."

Proverb on mothers
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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

Beecher, Henry Ward on mothers
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