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"All I can say is Hallelujah.... For Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, changing the words Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property to the Pursuit of Happiness."
"Lincoln was always scribbling notes and putting them into his hat. With his hat on, he was seven feet tall."
"Everyone is beautiful. Everyone makes you proud. Everyone breaks your heart."
"[Jefferson's] friend, the Polish Freedom Fighter Tadeusz Kosciuszko, left money in his will to be given to Jefferson to free and educate his slaves. But the task was overwhelming and he did not get it done."
"The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk, but divert yourself by the objects surrounding you. Walking is the best possible exercise. - Jefferson"
"History makes you hungry."
"THINK SMALL is my new motto. It helps me handle the complicated too-muchedness of it all."
"[Benjamin Franklin] believed in doing good everyday. He made charts and had daily goals. The morning question: What good shall I do this day? Evening question: What good have I done today?"
5-8am / Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goodness; contrive day's business and take the resolution of the day; prosecute the present study; and breakfast.
8am-12pm / Work.
12-2pm / Read or overlook my accounts, and dine.
2-6pm / Work.
6-10pm / Put things in their places, supper, music, or diversion, or conversation; examination of the day.
10pm-5am / Sleep."
"He aspired to be a gentleman and, when he was still a teenager, wrote "George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation."
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