"To compel a man to furnish contributions of……" — Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation… - Thomas Jefferson

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . ."

— Thomas Jefferson

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Nature abhors a garden. — Michael Pollan
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going… — T. Harv Eker
This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste.… — Leo Buscaglia
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. — Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors annihilation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly… — Gottfried Leibniz
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in… — Khalil Gibran
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. — Joseph Brodsky
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. — Bernard DeVoto
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and… — Albrecht Durer

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