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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Whatever, Lives

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

Small, Growth, Almost

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Alone, Everything, Find

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt

Person, Trouble, Sit

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson

Leave, Authority, Existing

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Yourself, Anybody, Hold

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey

Age, Good, Girl

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

Age, After, Face

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

Education, Age, Society

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

Human, Made, Poverty

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Fear, Greatest

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Thought, Accept, Word

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything, Free, Once

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire

Feels, Snowflake, Avalanche

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

Life, Person, Find

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Best, Philosophy

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Barack Obama

Down, Against, Might

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?
Barack Obama

Everything, Control, Understand

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
Barack Obama

Keep, Social, Security

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Answer, Respond

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
Abdul Kalam

Against, Means, High

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
Hillary Clinton

Work, Good, Women

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Manager

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Future, Important

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Rose, Forever, Tamed

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden

Life, May, Ignore

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Truth, Forget

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