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 think its a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same. – Jimmy Wales

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Knowledge
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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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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

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Knowledge

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. – Ben Shahn

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Knowledge

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter

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Knowledge

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. – Rebecca West

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And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow. – Rumi

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. – George Sand

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But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. – Jason Mraz

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If youve ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then youre already on the way to poetry. Its about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. – Rita Dove

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