"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."

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Source : "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

Esther Dyson

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“He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.”
“If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more amputees using the exact same prosthetic legs I have, running the exact same times I have - and that's not the case.”

Source : "Oscar Pistorius: The bullet in the chamber" by Gary Morley and Robyn Curnow, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2011.
“I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.”

Source : "The City of Lincoln", L. R. 15 P. D. 18, 1889.
“Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.”
“When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.”
“I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.”
“Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.”
“We are moving away from the old idea of leadership -- leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up...”

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