“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
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“Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
{Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
{Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813}”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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