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Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.


Lawrence Lessig

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JEFFREY SACHS This is important because of the water that comes from this property.
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ERIC WHITAKER We believe this action is necessary to protect the intellectual capital we have worked hard to devel...
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DAVID EMM We own the intellectual property.
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EDWIDGE DANTICAT They have one of the strongest intellectual property positions for their size in their space.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI How everything comes??
I really don't know I can say that it comes from nowhere :D :d.
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TED KENNEDY True piracy of intellectual property is a big problem generated by criminals. We strongly believe in...
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AMY CANADAY We have been on record for many, many years that any property that is simply selling itself on a 'se...
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WINSTON CHURCHILL Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.
JENNY NIMMO From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but ma...
JEAN PIAGET Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as Presid...
STEPHEN KINZER It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You ...
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DAVID WILKINS Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of ...
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ADRIANA RAUDZENS The landscape for intellectual property has totally changed.
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CHARLES LEE Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
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WILLIAM S. COHEN All you have have to do is watch the commercials. It's clearly an unfair use of our creative and int...
LARRY SCHWARTZ Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
STEVE BALLMER The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL From a technical point of view we can deal with any waste that comes from nuclear plants.
GRAHAM FAIRHALL Naturally that will push up prices and we are seeing that ... in the last two years a property you c...
EMMA LEDWABA Naturally, that will push up prices and we are seeing that ... in the last two years a property you ...
EMMA LEDWABA We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON To ignore this blatant misappropriation of our intellectual property is akin to taking these assets ...
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DAVID ADLER When magic comes back into the world, ... here's where it comes from, leaking from this drainpipe.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The new economy places a lot of value on intellectual property and content.
ALFREDO VIEGAS We plan to be very vigorous in the defense of our intellectual property.
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RANDY PAUSCH I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organ...
HOWARD BERMAN I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
WOODY ALLEN Information should be free...Intellectual Property, should not!
CLYDE DESOUZA I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.
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ARMONDO CIMA Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.
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DAVID POWERS A good chunk of the government's revenue comes from the businesses that have been destroyed.
JOHNSON HONIMAE Nothing is Perfect in this world,We just have to make it Perfect
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CARLY FIORINA We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.
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JODY HALL The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
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LAWRENCE WELK I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great...
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LAWRENCE DURRELL A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
LAWRENCE DURRELL I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with...
LAWRENCE DURRELL The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
LAWRENCE DURRELL For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
LAWRENCE DURRELL I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two compani...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
LAWRENCE DURRELL We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ...
LAWRENCE KUTNER I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo...
MARTIN LAWRENCE I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE