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"The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort."
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"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."

"Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem."

"When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli."

"When you spent your time, you are actually spending your life."

"When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse."

"It is your life, accept the responsibility."

"Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can't wear her smiling face to the platform. You've got to put that smile on your own face."

"We are the author of our own destruction."

"We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping."

"The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship."
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"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."

"In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate."

"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere."

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else."

"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"

"Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming."

"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."
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