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A puff of wind came up, carrying the stench of who knew how many corpses. Oh, that stink—it ought to be bottled and sold to every president, prime minister, king, dictator, and general for use when he gets an idea in his head to go to war.
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“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”
― The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child
― The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child
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