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mpotter"Freeze it, I'll eat it." - Dave Spensley, NIU, Lincoln Hall 1985
Administrator"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky, University of California, Berkeley
Administrator"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Administrator"It's never too late to become the person you might have been." - Mary Anne Evans
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Administrator"Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." - Thomas Jefferson
Administrator"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions." - Benjamin Franklin
Administrator "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." - Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Administrator"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
Administrator"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
Administrator"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world" - Albert Einstein
Administrator "[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers." - Judy Blume
Administrator"If there is enough snow - someone will eventually make a snow cone ... or pee in it." - Guy Qualls
Administrator"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." - Mohandas Gandhi
Administrator“Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion, or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof; or Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press; or the Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble, and To Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances.” — First Amendment
Administrator"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." — Benjamin Franklin
Administrator"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech." — Benjamin Franklin
Administrator"2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%" - Stephen King, "On Writing"
Administrator"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." - Jane Austin
Administrator"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Administrator"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." - Nietzche
Administrator"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire
Administrator"At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer." - Marshall Lumsden
Administrator"The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with." - Eleanor Holmes Norton
Administrator"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." - Salman Rushdie
Administrator"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." - Robert Louis Stevenson
Administrator"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal
Administrator"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." - Edwin Schlossberg
Administrator"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau
Administrator"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block." - Inigo DeLeon
Administrator"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." - Isaac Asimov
Administrator"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." - Jesse Stuart
Administrator"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." - Leo Rosten
Administrator"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything." - John Irving
Administrator"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Administrator"Tell me what you can't bear to look at, and in your house you shall have it." - Unknown
Administrator"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine
Administrator"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
Administrator"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." - Peter De Vries
Administrator"To write what's worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author." - Charles Caleb Colton
Administrator"There are two things I'm sure are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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