Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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The dead should not rule the living

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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry… –

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We never regret having eaten too little. –

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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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