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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

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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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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.
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life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.
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The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
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[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
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Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
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The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.
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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.
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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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What i value more than all things, good humor.
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
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