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• One often hears about the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.
  However, the conditions in which people find themselves have been largely established long before people become aware of them....
• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity.
  But this means we then give away our power to that entity. -- M. Scott Peck...
• Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
  -- Stanley Schmid...
• Responsibility is the linchpin of our society. Each man responsible for his own actions, each action contributing to the greater good.
  -- Major Briggs, from Twin Peak...
• If a society is to thrive, it must put its own overall success before the well-being of its individual citizens.
• If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it.
  People in disguise speak freely....
• People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.
  -- George Bush...
• Security is the individual's responsibility.
• People don't own cats, cats own PEOPLE!