"Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control."

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"I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy...censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This …"

— Robert A. Heinlein

Literature1907–1988

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"It is said that he replied to Cardinal ***, a not very regular prelate , who was complaining of suffering like a damned person: "What! Already, monseigneur?" In my opinion, he might well have said thi…"

— Michel-Philippe Bouvart

Medicine1711–1787

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"In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible."

— Ai Weiwei

Art1957

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"Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievabi…"

— Robert Aumann

Mathematics1930

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