ACCOUNTABILITY

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“Because sentence against a bad deed has not been executed speedily, the heart of men becomes emboldened to do bad.” – Solomon – Eccl. 8:11 - HOLY SCRIPTURES

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience.  With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear of death. – Voltaire

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

“Misery has to hide itself in silence—or it becomes treason.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

Honesty, for the most part, is less profitable than dishonesty. – Plato

The bitterest tears shed over graves are the words left unsaid and the deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

The way to avoid responsibilities is to say, “I’ve got responsibilities.” – Richard Bach

Don’t take guilt trips.  Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. – George Carlin

“Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Atticus Finch to Scout – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Most people want to be delivered from temptation, but would like to keep in touch. – Robert Orien

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. – Mohandas Gandhi    

It’s not so much that poverty breeds crime—crime breeds poverty! – Someone real smart 

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles. – C. S. Lewis

Getting angry can be like getting into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the moter, taking off at high speed, and then discovering the brakes are out of order. – Maggie Scarf (American writer / journalist)

Fear is pain rising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle

I’m extremely concerned Miley Cyrus thinks it’s cool if naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos.  You will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it’s the music business or yourself doing the pimping. – Sinead O’Connor (her website)

Acountability breeds response—ability. – Stephen Corry (British anthropologist)

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“The rich one rules the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender.” – Solomon – Prov. 22:7 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

“Grief is an examination.  There is no judge so searching as conscience conducting its own trial.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

Guilt—the gift that keeps on giving. – Erma Bombeck                                

God will help you with the high cost of living—but He will not help you with the cost of living high. – Doug Larsen (American Politician)

No! – Probably the most used quote in human history

When two friends get angry with each other, whoever takes the initiative and offers to forgive first, generally gets the first blessing. – Gary Pulliam

Every man is quilty of all the good he did not do. – Voltaire

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Rienhold Niebuhr (American theologian / teacher)

The worst thing that can happen to a person is not to die young.  The worst thing is to live a long active life, only to be separated eternally from God. – Someone very wise

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the east coast be supplemented by the Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. – Victor Frankl (Austrian psychiatrist)

People seldom do what they believe in.  They do what is convenient—then repent. – Bob Dylan

Nothing in fine print is ever good news. – Andy Rooney

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me most are the one I DO understand. – Mark Twain

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed for our prisons. – John Ruskin (English writer)

Whatever begins in anger ends in shame. – Winston Churchill

“It’s a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.  It’s a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” – Charles Darney facing execution by guillotine at the conclusion of A TALE OF TWO CITIES – Charles Dickens

The die is cast. – Julius Caesar                                                    

Smoking means always having to say you’re sorry. – Somebody important

There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher

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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 someone else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. – Thomas Merton

The superior man blames himself.  The inferior man blames others. – (Coach) Don Shula

Action springs not from thoughts, but from a readiness of responsibilities. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The wolves became lambs.  Such transformations occur in last agonies of life.  However different and imperfect the various sketches of religion are, even when belief is shapeless—there is a trembling of the soul.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor Frankl

The greatest griefs are the ones we cause ourselves. – Sophocles

To be angry is easy, but to be angry with the right man and at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy. – Aristotle

Mistakes are a fact of life—it’s the response to error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni

Emotion is energy in motion.  Guilt is the energy for personal change – Unknown

The longer one keeps a secret, the riskier the outcome. – Gary Pulliam

The most destructive criticism is indifference. – E. W. Howe

A national sales tax also encourages savings and investments.  A national sales tax would radically change the way government does business, and it would also encourage everyone to be in charge of their own money.  It would slowly motivate people to relinquish their dependence on government entitlements and subsidies. – Russell D. Longmore – A TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION                    

If the prelates (appointed clergy) set aside the commandments of God and enjoin their own man-made commands, what they do and command is of no avail. – Wessel Gansfort (Dutch religious scholar) – published c. 1520 - 1522              

Is anybody at Time Warner embarrassed by these by these lyrics?  Will the executives at Time Warner stand up and say these things in public?  We’re not talking about censorship—we’re talking about citizenship. – (Referring to Ice T’s rap record COP KILLER) – William Bennett – Former Secretary of Education. – 1995

“There is a kind of smoke in evil, in which the conscience cannot breathe.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

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“The rich one rules the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender.” – Solomon  – Prov. 22:7 – The BIBLE

When you get a certain age, a juicy lawsuit is the only thing that gets you up in the morning. – Gore Vidal