"We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, God, what a nut."

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Source : "One Planet, One Net" symposium, October 10, 1998.

Lawrence Lessig

#Nuts Quotes #Citizens Quotes #World Quotes

“I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.”
“My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.”
“I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music.”
“Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1906). “Pipes of Pan: Containing "From the Book of Myths", "From the Green Book of the Bards", "Songs of the Sea Children", "Songs from a Northern Garden", "From the Book of Valentines,"”
“Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.”
“The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve”
“No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.”
“When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.”

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