"Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results."

-- Richard Stallman

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“I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature.”
“Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it... With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. ... The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.”

Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 110-111, 1927.
“I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit.”
“Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God!”

Source : FaceBook post by Perry Noble from Jun 09, 2014
“Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right.”
“I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.”
“I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.”

Source : "Baz Luhrmann's Despair, Drive and Gamble Behind 'Great Gatsby'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 24, 2013.
“The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.”

Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.80

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