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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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