Act on your own, if you can, and do analysis and research independently as much as you can.

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Only guns, clubs, chains, jails, or some form of nonconsensual physical contact can kill you, injure you, or negate your ability to act on your own judgment.

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Because if you stay with Qaddafi, if you stay with this regime, if you accept and act on orders to murder your own people, you will be held accountable.

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Only then will your listener(s) own your goal as theirs and act on it.

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And then act on what you hear, letting go of your own preconceived notions and opinions and acting on the data.

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