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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesu
  by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter....
• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
  -- Thomas Paine "Common Sense...
• We never repent of having eaten too little." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. -- Thomas Jefferso
• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
  It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801...
• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the later only as a veteran may differ from a raw recrui
  and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club....