When I was 14 | Incorrigible Observer

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"Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible. "

--Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Testimony to the US Congress's Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, given June 15, 1961

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Widely attributed, probably inaccurately since Mark Twain’s father died when he was eleven years old

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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. "

--Mark Twain, Widely attributed, probably inaccurately since Mark Twain’s father died when he was eleven years old