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I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
– Willa Cather

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  2. The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. – Willa Cather
  3. It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain. – Willa Cather
  4. There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather
  5. He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer. – Willa Cather
  6. Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness. – Willa Cather
  7. Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. – Willa Cather
  8. It’s by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another. – Willa Cather
  9. Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. – Willa Cather
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  15. I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver. – Richelle E Goodrich
  16. Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
  17. A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. – Thomas Paine
  18. Nobody from your past should beheld responsible for your future.The only person accountable foryour future is you. – Domonique Bertolucci
  19. Nobody from your past should beheld responsible for your future.The only person accountable foryour future is you. – Domonique Bertolucci
  20. Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night. – SA Tawks
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  22. Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark. – Welcome to Nightvale
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  24. Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  25. Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? – Wendy Doniger
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  32. Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head. – Sanjo Jendayi
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  36. If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one. – Scott Klusendorf
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  38. You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement. – Steve Shallenberger
  39. Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent – Susan Scott
  40. Guilt is what makes you accountable. – Roshani Chokshi

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