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 I think that this post has ultimately split into more than just a few tangents, but I'd just like to make the concluding tangent that maybe, in the end, I am suspicious of the symbol of Obama because I, like Walker, underestimate the power of the American--not in her capacity for apathy, but in her capacity to create meaningful change from hope alone. I remember a quote: "If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." Is this true?
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  • The author of your quotation is the French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Asking whether it is true is a category error, I think. But the free software movement certainly demonstrates that it describes an approach to changing the future of humankind. See http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/911
 -- JosephLu - 16 Feb 2009
 
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