#says

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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#freedom

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ↗

— Henry Adams

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#mean #means #say #says #slippery

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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#essays #great-men #greatness #men