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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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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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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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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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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I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.
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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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This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love.
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I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.
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Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
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My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.
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Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.
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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?
