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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 heritage, published over centuries in…
- But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were…
- Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
- Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
- Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide…
- Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide