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“The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.”
― Cory Doctorow, For the Win

“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are able to find among them no such act of adoption; we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.

['Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law?', letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, from Monticello, February 10, 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.”
― Julius Lester

“Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”
― Thomas Jefferson