Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power - Jon Meacham

February 24, 2014, 9:29 pm

So much awesome in this portrait of the most human of founding presidents.

on religion:

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.

on argument:

I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument

on knowledge:

Knowledge was a desirable, indeed a lovely, possession

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Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup

February 16, 2014, 9:44 pm

The sales for the year 1841 were found, and carefully examined, but no sale of myself, by any name, was discovered

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The Everything Store - Brad Stone

February 11, 2014, 9:51 pm

There is so much that has yet to be invented

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Tom Horn - 20th April 1936 - 2nd February 2014

February 3, 2014, 12:39 am

My uncle and namesake.

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Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton

February 2, 2014, 12:25 am

People don�t invent things on the Internet, they simply expand on an idea that already exists

Evan Williams to Jack Dorsey

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