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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Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings towards action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.
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The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.
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I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.
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Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.
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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?
