"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."

Freedom, Past

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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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"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."

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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

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"Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours."

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"I suggest that people walk around under the moon barefoot, as I have today. There's that voice of your mom and dad and aunt and big sister and uncle and annoying cousin in your ear saying "Your feet are going to get dirty and you're going to turn into a bat" so the defiance in the act of simply taking your shoes off and standing there under that moon- is astronomical. A dirty-feet-moonlit-defiance that will make you smile."

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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."

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"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."

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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 free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid."

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"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."

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"This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth."

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

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"By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited."

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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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"Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt."

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

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