"I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international."
-Jimmy Wales
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"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.“
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"I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same."
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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
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"What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it."
-Jimmy Wales
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"I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband."
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"My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged."
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"I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign."
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"What none of the critics, positive or negative, grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western, something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare."
-Glenn Frankel
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"I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that."
-Katie Ledecky
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"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."
-Garrett Graff
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
-Henrietta Szold
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"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
-Carl D. Anderson
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