Eben Moglen Quotes
The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.
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Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
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The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?
