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The freedom to do what one intends, and not to do otherwise, is no less valuable than it ever was.
Sam Harris • Free Will
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Sam Harris • Free Will
Up-to-date will: Remember to include the name of your executor and your enduring power of attorney. A video of your parents (this one's for my wife, Liz).
Scott Pape • The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
In early July 1799 he summoned up the courage, in the seclusion of his study, to draft a remarkable new will. He did not use a lawyer and laboriously wrote out the twenty-nine pages in his own handwriting, disclosing his plans to nobody. In the text, he mentioned that “no professional character has been consulted,” observed that it had taken many “
... See moreRon Chernow • Washington
Washington looked favorably upon William Gordon’s history, as long as Congress first gave him license to open up his papers. A dissenting minister from Roxbury, Massachusetts, Dr. Gordon had been a staunch supporter of the independence movement. When Congress gave Washington its approval to unseal his papers, the indefatigable Gordon spent more tha
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10The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their ancestral houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred, ready for service in war. 12And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the son[35] o
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