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He's the top man, and whatever the people under him do, he is ultimately responsible.


Jeanette Woods

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UNKNOWN The mistake would be to think that Bush is a stupid man or somehow not responsible for his own actio...
DANIEL SULLIVAN Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
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ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE When we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for hi...
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LILI ST. CROW The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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DOUG HIETER The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him
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BEN ALLEN Jas, whatever Tom has under his trousers is between you and him.
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DERON WILLIAMS I think sometimes there is no right thing.
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MARINE LE PEN Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
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MARK TWAIN He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages
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ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.
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BIBLE Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? / And there was much murmuring among t...
BIBLE Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialit...
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BRENDA LEE Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We couldn't defend him. We couldn't get the ball around him. We couldn't pass it by him, under him, ...
FRED BOOTH My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now.
BARBARA UPTON He has remained a responsible, diligent, open and honest young man.
JAY HILL His man had come out on me and the defense was rotating the big man back on Lawrence. So I hit Lawre...
CHRIS HERNANDEZ Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en...
OSCAR WILDE I don't see a big impact on Portland. The city is ultimately responsible for the security at that te...
JEFF MONROE We need to look him in the eyes and tell him that he is responsible for the deaths of our children.....
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Oh man, I would definitely love to work with Kanye on something. But it really is all up to him, so ...
FETTY WAP Whether he was in the woods hunting or if he was walking, evidence points to him being struck.
LARRY COGGINS JR I wish you well - if you will die. May you rest in peace.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convuls...
THOMAS CARLYLE Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.
BEN ALLEN He was asking me what he should do, and at that time I told him that if he had the courage and the h...
JOSEPH TOWLE Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had,
PETER GOULD We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL [MSNBC gossip columnist Jeanette Walls reports that people shouldn't be upset if Donald Trump refuse...
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VIKTOR FRANKL Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. MENCKEN Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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your b...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU I told E before the game that I was going to look for him as much as possible. He deserved a game fo...
DEVAN DOWNEY The chance to do it over again is called now.
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HENRY KRAVIS The need for an ego boost is responsible for most things people do
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History is a collection of found objects washed up ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hangi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON History is a madman's museum.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting ol...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close...
JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON moss that is concentrating on being green.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I kissed her and forgot death.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet called Echo. It doesn’t exist. It’s like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not displ...
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