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Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
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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Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
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