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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.


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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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CAMERON DALLAS Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
DENNIS WEAVER An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
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MICHAEL WOOD The hidden keys of true happiness are individual responsibility and an incessant quest for joy.
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PIM FORTUYN I'm a man without a corporation.
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ED MCMAHON The primary responsibility of any business concern is to serve consumers but for profit.
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ANTONY JAY Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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BRUCE BLEHART It was unusual for its magnitude. You could say it was an ingenious plot.
DENNIS BINGHAM Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepren...
PAUL RYAN Questioning it now is an ingenious attempt to find ex post justification for the intrusion. This is ...
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Personal Responsibility is when an individual volunteers to be in charge of duties, tasks and is rea...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There can be no true response without responsibility; there can be no responsibility without respons...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injust...
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RAUL LABRADOR Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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KIM GANDY To support 2nd Amendment rights without supporting 2nd Amendment responsibility is an exercise in fl...
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EDDIE LONG I wish that I could live without you
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BOB HESS Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.
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ARTHUR LEVITT The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.
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