"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."

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Source : Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.31, Lulu.com

Richard Stallman

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“Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.”
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.”

Source : Charles Wheelan (2010). “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)”, p.28, W. W. Norton & Company
“The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.”
“I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.”

Source : FaceBook post by Martin Lawrence from Jul 07, 2014
“It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.”
“Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.”
“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
“When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.”

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