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"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"

"The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward."

"Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do."

"Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism " the tendencies of greed " the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust."

"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."
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"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."

"A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense."

"While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible."

"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."

"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."

"Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process."

"All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations."

"Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology."

"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."
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