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First Principles: Honest Friendship With All, Entanglements With None
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations…entangling alliances with none” – Thomas Jefferson Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address can be read in its entirety here: http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres16.html
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Tagged Alliances, Commerce, Entangle, First Inaugural Address, First Principles, Foreign Policy, Friendship, Honest, Peace, Thomas Jefferson
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Walking – Henry David Thoreau
Walking or The Wild is a seminal lecture first delivered by Henry David Thoreau at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It is comprised of extracts from his journals and was finally published in its final form in the Atlantic Monthly … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Monthly, Environment, Essay, Harvard Classics, Humanity, Nature, Society, The Wild, Thoreau, Walking
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Born For Love
Based on: 2 Timothy 1:7 Born For Love by Michael Romani We are born with a tender need Through kindness to be freed A need for love, to take and give This is the way we come to live Dressed … Continue reading
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Tagged Born, Love, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Second Life, Spirit
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WordPress #Daily Prompt – Grave
Graveyard Secrets
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Grave, Graveyard, Secrets, Skeleton, Wordpress
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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Collage
A Shimmering Collection of Buttons
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Tagged Buttons, Collection, Kultivate, Shimmering, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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#Weekly Photo Challenge: Collage
A Shimmering Collection of Buttons
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Tagged Buttons, Collage, Kultivate, Photo Challenge, Second Life, Weekly
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First Principles: Man Is Ruled Either By God or By Bayonet
“Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayonet, Bible, First Principles, Mankind, Robert Winthrop, Self Control, Speaker of the House, Strong Armed
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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Silence
“Music is the silence between the notes.” – Claude Debussy
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Tagged Claude Debussy, Impressionism, Music, Notes, Silence, Thought For the Day
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Mistress of Agony
Mistress of Agony by Michael Romani Death knows no finality At the hands of the mistress of agony Rising up from the primordial ooze A rite of passage you did not choose Here we have no distanced length Relying on … Continue reading
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Tagged Agony, Concerns, Degradation, Disorder, Mistress, Personality, Poetry, Stength, Weakness
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Extent of the Universe – Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb was mostly a self taught man. Yet, he made important advances with respect to timekeeping, applied mathematics, economics and statistics. This self made Canadian-American also dabbled in writing and astronomy. It is this last area, astronomy, that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Harvard Classics, Pioneering Spirit, Self Taught, Simon Newcomb, Study
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 