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...Since Jefferson's day, the U.S. Senate has had a rule that no member can be absent from its sessions without permission. That quaint regulation is in a class with the custom that a gentleman always dresses for dinner or walks on the lady's curb side...
When archaeologists dig up Los Angeles in a few millenniums, they may be puzzled by some of the fossils they find along a 1.68-mile stretch of Jefferson Boulevard. For there, in a gesture of economy and perhaps utility, Los Angeles County has installed 900 plastic peperomias, pit-tosporums and ti palms, among other flora, to decorate the roadway...
...Abraham Lincoln said Jefferson had "the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times...
...times make it imperative that we try to re-express the American mind, even though "our" abstract truth may apply to areas of present day concern that were scarcely conceivable as potential problems in Jefferson...
Again, what would you write if you sat down to be the Thomas Jefferson...