Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adam was out naming animals that morning. He was working on the mammals and was doing pretty well until all of a sudden he got stuck at hippopotamus. To tell you the truth, I didn't blame the guy. All along he had been coming up with simple names like "frog," "mouse," "cat." And then, out of the blue, he comes up with a complicated name like "hippopotamus." I mean, even "elephant" was stretching things a bit, and "kangaroo" was a positive extreme. But "hippopotamus"??? I said to him, "Couldn't you just call it a 'fat' or, at most...
...Well then, how can you blame us for doing something evil when we should have known enough to do something good which was not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil before we ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which was the only way we could have gotten the knowledge of good and evil that we would have needed to know enough not to eat from it? If you know what I mean...
...history of the Presidency shows not much got done when Presidents spent their time looking for others to blame for the nation's woes. The men remembered are the ones who shouldered the responsibility, went to work and solved the problems, no matter who created them...
Allende bore much of the blame for his own downfall. His socialist fiscal policies shattered Chile's economy instead of helping it. Always a net importer of food, the country had to import still more because Allende's land-reform programs reduced production. The government, as owner of the copper mines, was in deep trouble when world copper prices fell. Foreign reserves totaled $345 million when Allende took office; by the end of last year they had disappeared, and Chile was forced to plead for rescheduling of more than $2.5 billion in international debts. The country...
Liberal explanations of Watergate have never gotten down to causes. Some blame Nixon's arrogance; some conjure up generalizations about national psychology. The most bizarre reasoning of all passes Watergate off as a one-of-a-kind right-wing crime whose exposure somehow vindicates the liberal system of justice...