"A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now."

Change, Culture, Future, Now

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"A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now."

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

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"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."

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"A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom."

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