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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson
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My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! – Thomas Jefferson

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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. Weve been taught that silence would save us, but it wont. – Audre Lorde

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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that weve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. – Stephen King

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People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. Its hard for us to really relate to them and understand them. – Dominic Monaghan

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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. – Jimmy Carter

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As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. – Doris Kearns Goodwin

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. – Jean de La Fontaine

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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. – Fran Lebowitz

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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. – Alan Dean Foster

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