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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
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- M. Scott Peck
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- Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for M. Scott Peck: life dates 1936 to 2005. Wikidata Q663928, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q663928 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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