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There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

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Julian Assange
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 3
Business Executive
Computer Scientist
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Hacker
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realisation dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
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Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.
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True information does good.
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The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.
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A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.
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As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.
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There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
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And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
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Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war.
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The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
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Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs.
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I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
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Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.
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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.
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To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
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I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.
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The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.
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The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.
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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
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I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.
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