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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Richard Feynman
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1918 to 1988; Wikidata Q39246, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39246 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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