I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human m…

Thomas Jefferson
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). The Essential Jefferson, p.194, Hackett Publishing
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). The Essential Jefferson, p.194, Hackett Publishing

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