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Alexis de Tocqueville
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Thomas Jefferson
“If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it."

[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]
Thomas Jefferson, The Inaugural Speeches and Messages of Thomas Jefferson, Esq.: Late President of the United States: Together with the Inaugural Speech of James Madison, Esq. ...

Will Durant
“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
Will Durant

David Foster Wallace
“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace
“I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I...”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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