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"Just change your attitude and perception to change your life."

"This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it."

"All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary."

"We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country."

"If you want to change anything or your surroundings, change your perception; it will change everything."

"Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world."
Explore more quotes by Lawrence Lessig

"The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces."

"Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property."

"In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt."

"Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders."

"Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device."

"If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities."

"The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."

"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place."

"Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal."

"We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying."
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