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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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 viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. Were doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way. – Jimmy Wales

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positive
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Im a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. – Jimmy Wales

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. – Christopher Lasch

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. – Will Durant

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Knowledge

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. – Richard Cecil

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Knowledge

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis. – John Wycliffe

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Knowledge

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If youre lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if youre someone whos got a family thats all fractured and finding it hard to relate, thats a very sad place to be. – Tom Hardy

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