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Archaeologist Inspirational Quotes (1667)

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When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.
Thomas Jefferson
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An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
Thomas Jefferson
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
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the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
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The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
Thomas Jefferson
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Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.
Gail Carriger
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The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
Thomas Jefferson
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
Thomas Jefferson
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My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.
Gail Carriger
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Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
Thomas Jefferson
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A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.
Thomas Jefferson
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I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.
Thomas Jefferson
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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
Georges Cuvier
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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Thomas Jefferson
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
Thomas Jefferson
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
Thomas Jefferson
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Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.
James Henry Breasted
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl
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We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
Michael Rostovtzeff
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