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" The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness. "
Richard Stallman
Become
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" The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. "
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