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Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...
He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the attacks on those creeds - or on persons devoted to them - have served to darken his memory, casting a shadow across the closing years of his life.
When Theodore Roosevelt termed Tom Paine a 'dirty little atheist' he surely spoke from lack of understanding. It was a stricture, an inaccurate cha
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― Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison
― Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison
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People seem to think because I have a pretty fave I'm stupid... I have to work twice as hard as anyone else to convince people I have something resembling a brain"
-Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor
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