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"How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?"
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Joel Barlow

"How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?"

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"A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression."
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Joel Barlow

"A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression."

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"Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge."
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John Perry Barlow

"Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge."

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"You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions."
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John Perry Barlow

"You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions."

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"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
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John Perry Barlow

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."

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"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases."
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John Perry Barlow

"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases."

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"The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable."
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John Perry Barlow

"The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable."

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"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
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John Perry Barlow

"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."

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"So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone."
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John Perry Barlow

"So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone."

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"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."
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John Perry Barlow

"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."

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"Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government."
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John Perry Barlow

"Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government."

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"In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance."
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John Perry Barlow

"In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance."

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"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."
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John Perry Barlow

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."

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"If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass."
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John Perry Barlow

"If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass."

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"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
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John Perry Barlow

"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."

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"I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior."
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John Perry Barlow

"I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior."

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"I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others."
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John Perry Barlow

"I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others."

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"I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again."
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John Perry Barlow

"I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again."

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"I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood."
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John Perry Barlow

"I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood."

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"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age."
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John Perry Barlow

"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age."

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"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
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John Perry Barlow

"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."

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"It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing."
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John Perry Barlow

"It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing."

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"Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests."
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Chester Irving Barnard

"Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests."

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"I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child."
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Neal Barnard

"I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child."

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"We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change."
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Neal Barnard

"We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change."

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"To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse."
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Neal Barnard

"To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse."

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"Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable."
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Neal Barnard

"Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable."

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"In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either."
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Neal Barnard

"In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either."

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"Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat."
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Neal Barnard

"Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat."

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"A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats."
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Neal Barnard

"A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats."

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"If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital."
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Neal Barnard

"If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital."

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"Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold."
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Barnabe Barnes

"Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold."

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"A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade."
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Barnabe Barnes

"A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade."

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"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing."
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Clive Barnes

"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing."

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"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
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Clive Barnes

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."

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"The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind."
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Djuna Barnes

"The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind."

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"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."
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Djuna Barnes

"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."

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"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart."
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Djuna Barnes

"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart."

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"To love without criticism is to be betrayed."
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Djuna Barnes

"To love without criticism is to be betrayed."

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"What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?"
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Djuna Barnes

"What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?"

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"This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind."
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Djuna Barnes

"This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind."

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"The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections."
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Djuna Barnes

"The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections."

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"New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American."
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Djuna Barnes

"New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American."

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"Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty."
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Djuna Barnes

"Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty."

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"Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact."
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Djuna Barnes

"Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact."

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"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties."
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Djuna Barnes

"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties."

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"A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same."
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Djuna Barnes

"A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same."

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"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward."
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Djuna Barnes

"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward."

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"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."
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Djuna Barnes

"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."

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"Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one."
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Fred Barnes

"Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one."

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