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• 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...
• A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese proverb
• Guillotine: A machine which makes the Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
  -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary...
• A person is a lion in his own cause.
• Every guilty person is his own hangman. -- Seneca
• The only measure of a man's usefulness is the extent to which he exercises his talent, according to the laws of his own growth, for the common good.
  -- Stanley Kunitz...
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  [his opponent] Put up your dukes, Homer. Homer: Agggh!...
• What do I consider a reasonable person to be? I'd say a reasonable person is one who accepts that we are all human and therefore fallible, and takes that into account when dealing with others.
  Implicit in this definition is the belief that it is the right and the responsibility of each person to live his or her own life as he or she sees fit, to respect this right in others, and to demand the assumption of this responsibility by others....