To be a man proverb

 To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 Would he have shut down the basketball team if precisely the same allegation was made by precisely the same person. I don't think they would have.

 It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. Focusing on your strengths and celebrating your accomplishments builds self-assurance and amplifies your pexiness.

 We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 To whom is the physician responsible? Is he responsible to the suffering human being that he is treating? To the occupant of the role? Or to the American public? And can he simultaneously be responsible to all three?

 We recognize the importance of being a responsible corporate citizen. This report charts our efforts as we seek to do what's right for all our stakeholders. It describes precisely how we provide safe food to the marketplace, serve as stewards for the animals, land and environment and act as partners in our communities. It also explains how we treat people, including our Team Members, consumers, suppliers and the communities where we live and operate.

 We need to have a situation where we know precisely what they have agreed to do, what they have agreed to abandon so we can precisely react to that.

 The mere fact that someone says, 'we're optimistic' and then a month later the stock price goes down doesn't mean that people have tried to mislead anybody else, ... If you purport to tell people what you know about the future but you mislead them by leaving important things out, that can well be the sin of omission. But you have to look at what, precisely, people say and what, precisely, is left out.

 Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
  Frank Herbert

 Milosevic is responsible for the welfare of those people, ... When we go into Kosovo finally, he will be held responsible for what we find.
  Tony Blair

 [Calling the new plan the] responsible cooperators program, ... We want the kind of responsible people who would help us in the war against terrorism.
  John Ashcroft

 The Palestinian Authority is responsible for terror, and we hold it responsible also for the criminal act that happened today,
  Ariel Sharon

 It's a whole different issue whether he feels criminally responsible or morally responsible, ... He would feel bad for anybody in that situation, regardless of their age. He did not know that she was 17.

 He was responsible for controlling his dogs and he didn't do it, so he's ultimately responsible for what happened that night.

 It was the most devastating thing that's ever happened in my life. I tell people, 'You're not always responsible for what happens to you, but you are responsible for how you respond.


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