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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.
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I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
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I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid and I find myself much the happier.
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