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The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, I__l say _ or think? _ to the target, 'Don__ do it. Don__ go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a rollercoaster. Swim in the ocean naked. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it__ in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you__e never evenheard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose__llow smellsto be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven__ seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don__ go back to thatmiserable place you go every day. Show me it__ possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don__ have to keep doing this if you don__ want to. You can do anything you want. Be anyone you want. That__ what they tell us at school, but if you keep getting on that train and going to the place you hate I__ going to start thinking the people at school are liars like the Nazis who told the Jews they were just being relocated to work factories. Don__ do that to us. Tell us the truth. If adulthood is working some death-camp job you hate for the rest of your life, divorcing your secretly criminal husband, being disappointed in your son, being stressed and miserable, and dating a poser and pretending he__ a hero when he__ really a lousy person and anyone can tell that just by shaking his slimy hand _ if it doesn__ get any better, I need to know right now. Just tell me. Spare me from some awful fucking fate. Please.

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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. We are destined to be a barrier against the returns of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a Colossus shall we be when the Southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it secure as a ralliance for the reason & freedom of the globe! I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. So good night. I will dream on, always fancying that Mrs Adams and yourself are by my side marking the progress and the obliquities of ages and countries.

TJ
Thomas Jefferson

Adams-Jefferson Letters