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Monthly Archives: May 2018
Thought For the Day: Manipulating the Valuation of A Country’s Currency Is the Surest Way To Destroy Its Economy
“There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner … Continue reading
First Principles: To Be Respected Be Respectable
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788
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Tagged Federalist Paper No. 62, First Principles, Government, Individual, James Madison, Order, Respect, Respectable, Stability
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First Principles: The Purpose of the Legislature Is To Maintain and Secure Our Natural Rights
“Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Don’t Invest All of Your Satisfaction Into One Aspiration
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.” – Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiration, Investment, Satisfaction, Sigmund Freud, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Mentor
There is, I think, a splinter in my eye I said as I did my best John Wayne And pretended I would not cry She would not, I think, like my pain Yoshiko had been my mentor and my friend … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Grandmother, Hero, John Wayne, Learned, Lessons, Mentor, Pain, Preaching, Sensei, Soul, Splinter, Teaching, Wordpress, Yoshiko
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Thought For the Day: It Is Perfectly Appropriate To Copy The Nuances, Mannerisms, Styles and Cultural Idioms of Other Cultures
“By now you’ve probably heard that an American teenager wore a traditional Chinese dress to her prom. The young lady, Keziah Daum, is not ethnically Chinese or Asian. And this infuriated a lot of people on Twitter. … Cultural appropriation … Continue reading
First Principles: The Private Character Serves to Instruct On Public Persons
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” – Samuel Adams (1775)
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Tagged Character, Citizens, First Principles, Leaders, manners, Private, Public, Public Trust, Samuel Adams, Vigilience
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Tide
Do you remember that day out at San Pedro That stretch of beach where we use to go Sometimes, I think of it, no foolin’ How you and I would go out tide poolin’ We watched the cormorants surfing their … Continue reading
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Tagged Camera, Cormorant, Daily Prompt, Ebb, Flow, Photography, San Pedro, Sea Hare, Surf, Tide, Tide Pool, Watery Grave, Waves, Wordpress
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Burger, Shake and Fries
Burger, Shake and Fries by Michael Romani At times, I have little regard for consequences Being madly caught up in the references Served up samples of nostalgia on a bun All of it speaks of a life well done The … Continue reading
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Tagged American Way, Aromatic, Burger, Consequence, Cultural Reference, Deadly, Fast Food, Fries, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Shake, Small Town, Sublime
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 