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Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
— Aaron Swartz
Tags: sick, government, money, you

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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
— Aaron Swartz
Tags: first, he, speak, face
Big stories need human stakes.
— Aaron Swartz
Tags: stakes, stories, need, human, big
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.
— Aaron Swartz
Tags: fix, act, congress, progress
I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
— Aaron Swartz
Tags: i-am, world, me, life
Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
— Aaron Swartz
Tags: things, who, river, long
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