Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

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The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

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All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way. ― Bell Hooks

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Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. ― Jim Rohn

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Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. - Charles Spurgeon

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