Quote by Jimmy Wales
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge – the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. – Jimmy Wales

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I have zero interest in sports of any kind – professional, college or international. – Jimmy Wales

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Sports
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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged. – Jimmy Wales

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Freedom
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I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband. – Jimmy Wales

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Knowledge
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I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. – George McGovern

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Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge. – Aristotle

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Knowledge

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. – Harold Bloom

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Knowledge

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. – Wendell Phillips

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Knowledge

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Cancer Support

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it. – John Wooden

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Time

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. – Gertrude Stein

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History

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle

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work