I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason…

Thomas Jefferson
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I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2011). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, p.210, Princeton University Press
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