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Thomas Jefferson
I was bold...
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and...
The moment a...
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits that favor that...
Perseverance in object,...
Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as...
A good cause...
A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies....
It is wonderful...
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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-- Thomas...
The man who...
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but...
I like the...
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Source:...
He who receives...
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at...
The sun has...
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
Source: In Quotable Business, ed....
Great innovations should...
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
Source: Letter, 2 May...