“The phrase ‘I am not responsible’ has become a standard response in our society to complaints of a job poorly done.”
HYMAN G RICKOVER
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Inspiring and insightful quotes pulled from Ryan Holiday’s third book of his most recent stoic series over Justice, one of the four cardinal virtues of stoicism.
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