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«Man represents us, legislates for us, and now holds himself accountable for us! How kind in him, and what a weight is lifted from us! We shall no longer be answerable to the laws of God or man, no longer be subject to punishment for breaking them,»
«Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.»
«You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
| Keywords:
accountable, authority, bottleneck, creates, develop, finish, good authority, launch, launches, launching, on tap, projects, responsible, tap, tapping, taps
«The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| About:
Diversity,
Earth
| Keywords:
accountable, astonishing, bolt, bolt of lightning, cell, cooled, derived, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, originally, probability
«We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.»
Author: Mildred Newman
| Keywords:
accountable
«The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.»
«Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.»
«The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of . . . older men who prey on underage women. . . . There are consequences to decisions and . . . one way or another, people always wind up being held accountable.»
«We are not accountable for the sins of Adam»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Christianity,
Sin
| Keywords:
accountable, Adam
«We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
accountable, Actions, American, be restored, broken, guilty, law-breaking, law, lawbreaker, lawbreakers, precept, reject, restore, restores, restoring, The American
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