Quotes with abdication

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• Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The abdication of belief makes the behavior small - better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

  Emily Dickinson
  American poet (1830 - 1886)
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• The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

  Carl Bernstein
  American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• squandering
• obligations
• consequence
• spectacle
• ignoring

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