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+{{cquote|As a person who logs into Wikipedia first thing when he needs information, I feel it’s a moral duty to keep this wealth of information there, and as an engineer who gains money and affords to pay I feel it’s a responsibility to support this pool of knowledge so it’s still there for the students and for our sons and daughters.
+With the same justified attitude that makes us pay for our food, we have to consider how paying for knowledge can be.
+Food is the meal for our bodies and we need that to survive, but knowledge is the meal for our brains and we need that to live. Among the rest of the creatures, only the human beings need meals for their brains.
+Still, the issue is different when it comes to sharing the human knowledge, because the modern world in which we live now is a result of this sharing, and it wouldn’t have been if everyone needed to re-invent his own wheel in a way or another.
+Unlike other products, the value of knowledge is priceless and the donation is a humble way to show appreciation, because what we pay for price-tagged products is what keeps the economy up, but donations -even small ones- is what keeps the world revolving in the right direction.
+As long as we are capable, we should give the world a push in the right direction whenever we see a chance to do so, at least because we happened to be on board.
+Wikipedia to me is one place where I am sure my money is going to the right hands.}}
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 {{cquote|Are you kidding?! At play in the fields of human knowledge! I use Wikipedia every day, usually multiple times, to learn, to clarify or enlarge, and sometimes to submit to serendipity. I'm a 60-year old woman, have an undergraduate degree in Latin, work as a property manager, and think that Wikipedia is a Giant Leap Forward. Thanks!}}