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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

    [Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: atheism, baron-d-holbach, condorcet, d-alembert, d-holbach, deism, denis-diderot, diderot, jean-le-rond-d-alembert, marquis-de-condorcet, paul-henri-d-holbach, platonic, platonic-christianity, protestant
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    John Stuart Mill
    “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
    tags: duty, paraphrased, political, political-philosophy, us-history
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Voltaire
    “If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: love, world
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    Bill Gates
    “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
    ― Bill Gates
    tags: inspirational
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    Bill Gates
    “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
    ― Bill Gates
    tags: bill-gates, inspirational, life
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