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First Principles: No Nation Has Ever Been Ruined By Trade
“No nation was ever ruined by trade, even seemingly the most disadvantageous.” – Benjamin Franklin (1774)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Commerce, Economics, First Principles, Growth, Trade
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Thought For the Day: Kindness Is In Our Power Even When Fondness Is Not
“Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.” – Henry James
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Tagged Ability, Fondness, Grace, Henry James, Kindness, Power, Thought For the Day
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Seeds of Totalitarianism Dispersed
Generally speaking, we as a people stand for liberty and all its intendent duties and responsibilities. In this day and age, there has been an increasing move toward surrendering liberties for what we have latched onto as security, be it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absurd, Belief, Clever, Connotation, Cynicism, Deception, Difference, Double Speak, False Nuance, False Positive, God, Help, Language, Liberty, Matters, Morbidity, Myth, Orwellian, Perverse, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Provocation, Reality, Resolution, Society, Tactics, Totalitarianism, Truth, Tyranny, Understanding, Version, Willful Amnesia
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Thought For the Day: Capitalism Has Been the Most Effective Way To Eliminate Poverty In History
Socialists like to blame every inequity, the actions of every greedy criminal, every downturn and every social ill on the injustice of capitalism. But none of them admit that capitalism has been the most effective way to eliminate poverty in … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day, Uncategorized
Tagged Blame, Capitalism, China, David Harsanyi, Elimination, History, India, Inequity, Millenials, Poverty, Socialism, Soviet Union, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: There Is An Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness
“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantage, Correspondences, Duty, Economy, Felicity, First Principles, George Washington, Happiness, Honest Policy, Nature, Prosperity, Rewards, Virtue
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Word Prompt – Dividend
The ice cream man is not sort of mathematician But with all those flavors, he’s a sort of magician One might say that a few shared licks are a dividend As a payment in kind when shared with a good … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Dividend, Ice Cream Man, Licks, Liquidated, Magician, Math, Payment, Refrigerated, Satisfaction, Sidewalk, Sizzling, Word Prompt
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Thought For the Day: The Democratic Party Is On the Path To Its Own Destruction
“What is the Democratic party going to be? I am still a Democrat and when I see somebody that really says she is a socialist… If you look at the policies, those are not policies that will be supported very … Continue reading
First Principles: Choose Economy and Liberty Over Profusion and Servitude
“We must make our election between economy and Liberty, or profusion and servitude.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged Choice, Economy, Election, First Principles, Government, Liberty, Profusion, Servitude, The People, Thomas Jefferson
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Even the Gods Die Alone
Sort of a part two. Life is what it is, right? https://flic.kr/p/29k3jFH Even the Gods Die Alone by Michael Romani Even the gods die alone She said with a heart of stone And still I’ll miss her With memories of … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Inspiration Comes From Work
“Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration.” – Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)
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Tagged Appetite, Composer, Eating, Igor Stravinsky, Inspiration, Thought For the Day, Work
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