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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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Cory Efram Doctorow
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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
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Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
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I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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