"What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to……" — Aaron Swartz
"What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual."
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39 Quotes by Aaron Swartz
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Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
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Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say.…
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Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to…
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit…
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I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition…
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We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need…
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But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural…
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Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
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With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge -…
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But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing…
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No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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