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You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.


Stephen W. Comiskey

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...
STEPHEN FRY Books are a uniquely portable magic.
STEPHEN KING One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives...
STEPHEN HAWKING And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
STEPHEN KING If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that...
STEPHEN COLBERT