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While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

— Daniel J. Boorstin The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)

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These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer.

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