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“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
― Willie Nelson

“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]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.”
― John F. Kennedy

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
― Dean Martin