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#1

“Growing your own food is like printing your own money.”
― Ron Finley

tags: food, gardening, growing-food, independence, self-sufficiency, sustainability

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#2

“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.
In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: inspirational, thought-provoking

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#3

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#4

“It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, Education: Free & Compulsory

tags: education, school

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#5

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller

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#6

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

tags: freedom, liberty, slavery

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#7

“Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.”
― Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

tags: copyright, economics, law

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#8

“Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.”
― Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

tags: generation, pirates

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#9

“Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant

tags: copyright, culture, digital, ip, piracy, technology

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#10

“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant

tags: anonymity, democracy, freedom-of-speech, power, privacy, responsibilities, rights, truth

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#11

“...nothing is more properly a man’s own than the fruit of his study. The protection of literary property would greatly encourage genius and promote useful discoveries.”
― Noah Webster, A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects (1843) [Leather Bound]

tags: author, copyright, publishing

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#12

“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
― Ralph Nader

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#13

“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”
― Ralph Nader

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#14

“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”
― Ralph Nader

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#15

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
― Ralph Nader

tags: followers, leaders, leadership

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#16

“The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.”
― Ralph Nader

tags: leadership-development, personal-growth, quotes

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#17

“The public domain is not some gummy residue left behind when all the good stuff has been covered by property law. The public domain is the place we quarry the building blocks of our culture. It is, in fact, the majority of our culture.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind : Annotated Edition

tags: culture, freedom, intellectual-property, public-domain

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#18

“The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs – the word is not too extreme – to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: author, public-domain, rights

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#19

“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#20

“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
― George Washington

tags: education, george-washington, government, importance-of-science, knowledge, learning, presidents, public-happiness, science

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#21

“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”
― Gabe Newell

tags: entertainment-industry, game-development, games, gaming, media, piracy

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#22

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

tags: knowledge

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#23

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

tags: english-poet, inspirational, knowledge, willpower

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#24

“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: knowledge, women

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#25

“The knowledge of all things is possible”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: creativity, curiosity, knowledge, learning

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