"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.“
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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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