Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. ✨ Thomas…

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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
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