He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. … - Cory Doctorow

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We have an opportunity to have real leadership. America's going to have that kind of leadership and continue to promote principles of peace to make a world a safer place and make people in this country more confident that their future is secure.

Cory Doctorow

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

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It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

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I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

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He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

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The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

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