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First Principles: Promotion of the Human Mind Adds To National Wealth
“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.” – Alexander Hamilton This quote … Continue reading
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Tagged Enterprise, First Principles, Hamilton, Human Mind, Report On Manufactures, Wealth
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First Principles: Religious Liberty
Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer. Because of this I took a little time off to do just that. There can be no more worthy a pursuit than to pray and meditate on the state of the United States … Continue reading
Thought of the Day: Life Is Like A Box of Crayons
“We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box.”* — Robert Fulghum Eyes Like A Child … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Colors, Crayons, Learn, Live, Names, Robert Fulghum, Sharp, Thought of the Day
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Dressed Up In My Faithfulness
Based on a Wednesday night sermon centered on John 18:11 Dressed Up In My Faithfulness by Michael Romani Twisted up with misconception Prayerful for a new direction Giving my all to and for His glory This is my journey; this … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of John, Dressed Up, Faithfulness, Glory, Graciousness, Great Comission, Holy, Journey, Peter, Prayer, Pride, Righteous, Service, Spiritual, Submission
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First Principles: Separation Between Politics and Personalities
“It’s been a great source of pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who have not had the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading
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Tagged Distinguish, Founders, Hatred, Jefferson, Liberality, Opinions, Opponents, Pain, Political Opposition, Social Opposition, Transferred
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Thought of the Day: Estimating An Intelligent Ruler
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” – Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author (3 May 1469-1527) The full text of The Prince can be found at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232 … Continue reading
Epistrophe: Legend (In My Own Time)
The second poem from tonight is: Legend (In My Own Time) by Michael Romani Feeling a little jaded All the memories are faded Of how we blazed across the strings Hoping for the stardom it would bring And now my … Continue reading
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Tagged Clever, Epistrophe, Full Circle, Jukebox Heroes, Legend, Memories, Repartee
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Epistrophe – Stormy Moments
Tonight’s weekly short form poetry workshop featured a form based on a literary device commonly known as an epistrophe. This is, also, sometimes called epiphora or anistrophe. An epistrophe “is the repetition of words or a phrase at … Continue reading
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Tagged Epistrophe, Ghazal, Lightning, Short Form Poetry, Stormy, Thunder
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First Principles: Interests Are Inseparable From Moral Duties
“We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation … Continue reading
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Tagged Armaments, George Washington, History, Individual Interests, Moral Duties, Thomas Jefferson, Trust, War, Witness
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Thought for the Day: Power v. Justice
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of … Continue reading
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Tagged Georges Beranos, Governing, Injustice, Justice, Powerful, Resistance
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 