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I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.

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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.
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If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.
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A free culture is not a culture without property it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.
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If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.
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[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.
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I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
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Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
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I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.
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Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.
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Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.
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Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
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Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
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When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
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A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
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