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A comment on Stop Reading News (2013). Parent comment

Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by prossercj on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:59AM (#19085280)
This quote from Thomas Jefferson seems relevant:

"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier." [0]

[0] http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/280

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Re:Stop Reading News (2013) by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:48AM (#19085685)
Jefferson was 80 when he wrote that, so the context is a little different than what people are discussing here.
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