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That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.
Author:
Don Young
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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
Author:
Lu Xun
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It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.
Author:
Brian Welch
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
Author:
Otto Weininger
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The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
Author:
John Warnock
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I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.
Author:
Shane Warne
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A fault is fostered by concealment.
Author:
Virgil
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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
Author:
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
Author:
Preston Sturges
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When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
Author:
Joe Strummer
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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
Author:
George Street
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
Author:
Rod Stewart
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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
Author:
Sam Snead
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Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.
Author:
Delia Smith
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But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
Author:
Barry Sheene
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
Author:
Connie Sellecca
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It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
Author:
Angelo Scola
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.
Author:
Neil Schon
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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Author:
Branch Rickey
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It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
Author:
Katie Price
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Never find fault with the absent.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Author:
Plutarch
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.
Author:
Pontius Pilate
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
Author:
Bill Parcells
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Author:
Ovid
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So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.
Author:
Marie Osmond
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An artist is his own fault.
Author:
John O'Hara
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If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Author:
Louis Nizer
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Author:
John Newman
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
Author:
John Newman
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The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.
Author:
John Negroponte
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It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
Author:
Brian Mulroney
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
Author:
John Mortimer
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Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.
Author:
Frank Morgan
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Author:
Moliere
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I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
Author:
Jonathan Miller
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Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
Author:
Kelly Millar
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Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
Author:
John Mellencamp
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The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
Author:
Peter McWilliams
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A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
Author:
Haniel Long
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Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
Author:
T. Lawrence
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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
Author:
Frieda Lawrence
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The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.
Author:
James Laughlin
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Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
Author:
Vladimir Kramnik
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.
Author:
David Kay
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The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.
Author:
David Kay
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If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.
Author:
Adam Jones
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This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
Author:
Robert Hutchins
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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Author:
Horace
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You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
Author:
James Hillman
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It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Author:
Herman Hesse
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No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Author:
Alexander Herzen
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Author:
George Herbert
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Author:
George Herbert
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Author:
Katharine Hepburn
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My fault now is making my plays too short.
Author:
Beth Henley
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Author:
Georg Hegel
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
Author:
Arlo Guthrie
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I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
Author:
Amy Grant
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I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.
Author:
Gordon Getty
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
Author:
Luke Ford
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I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
Author:
Luke Ford
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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Author:
Henry Ford
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I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.
Author:
Lou Ferrigno
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When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Author:
Epictetus
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We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
Author:
David Elliott
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In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
Author:
Andrew Eldritch
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I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.
Author:
Marjory Douglas
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Dance must have a precision without fault.
Author:
Arielle Dombasle
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Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
Author:
Cameron Diaz
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The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
Author:
Jacques Delors
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I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.
Author:
Kool Dee
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I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
Author:
James Dean
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But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
Author:
Rebecca Davis
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So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
Author:
Davy Crockett
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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
Author:
Robert Conquest
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Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Author:
William Collins
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Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Author:
Edward Coke
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I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
Author:
Howard Coble
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The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
Author:
Ty Cobb
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
Author:
George Clooney
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.
Author:
Neil Cavuto
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
Author:
George Canning
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Author:
Michael Caine
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I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.
Author:
Ken Burns
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Faultless to a fault.
Author:
Robert Browning
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We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
Author:
John Breaux
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I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.
Author:
Eva Braun
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I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
Author:
Heston Blumenthal
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I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
Author:
Dennis Blair
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
Author:
Lewis Black
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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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. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Author:
Yogi Berra
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Author:
Henri Bergson
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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
Author:
Peter Berger
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
Author:
Kristen Bell
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Author:
Samuel Beckett
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We didn't score any runs today. That's not my fault.
Author:
Danny Bautista
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God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
Author:
Jim Bakker
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.
Author:
Bugs Baer
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Author:
Richard Bach
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Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
Author:
Marvin Ashton
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People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
Author:
Adam Arkin
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I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
Author:
Edward Albee
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
Author:
Kate Adie
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
Author:
James Adams
