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First Principles: The End of Law Is To Preserve and Enlarge Freedom
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.” – John Locke
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Tagged Abolish, End of Law, Enlarge, First Principles, Freedom, Goal, John Locke, Preserve, Restrain
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Thought For the Day: What One Can Be, One Must Be
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” – Abraham Maslow, psychologist (1 Apr 1908-1970)
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Tagged Abraham Maslow, Artist, Music, Musician, One Can Be, One Must Be, Paint, Peace, Poet, Self, Self Actualization, Thought For the Day, Write
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Each In Our Part
Started attending a new church today. It’s related to a church I enjoyed very much in California. Today, they had two of the children work together to recite Romans 12:6. That was a pretty awesome verse to commit to memory. … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Act, Body, Church, Communion, Contribute, Day, Death, Embrace, Face, Faces, Forgiven, Friend, Glorify, God, Grace, Heaven, Holy, Human Race, Jesus, Memory Verse, Part, Perfected Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Remind, Response, Romans 12:6, Sacrifice, Sanctify, Savior, Signifigance, Sin, Suffice, Together
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First Principles: Those Who Think Themselves Unaccountable Will Act Unaccountable and All Persons Would Be Unaccountable If They Could
“It is nothing strange, that men, who think themselves unaccountable, should act unaccountably, and that all men would be unaccountable if they could.” – John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letters
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Tagged Act, All, Cato's Letters, Could, First Principles, John Trenchard, Men, Strange, Think, Thomas Gordon, Unaccountable
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Thought For the Day: Dare To Read, Think and Do Something Different Than Others Around You
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Morley, Do, Every Day, Mind, No One Else, Read, Silly, Think, Thought For the Day, Unanimity
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Adulting Conversation
Today’s world is perceived as fraught with danger. Linguists have determined that the more risk we believe society is in, the more we increasingly decline in adulting and the more we use words like “adulting”… Adulting Conversation by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Adult, Adulting, Change, Communication, Construction, Conversation, Danger, Deal, Fascination, Fix, Future, Hope, Insult, Introduction, Keep It Real, Language, Linguist, Live and Learn, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Risk, Rope, Talk, Tic, Turn, Verbal Punch, Words
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Thought For the Day: Bad Weather Looks Worse Through A Window
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” – Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928)
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First Principles: No National Church Should Be Established
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” – Henry Clay, statesman and orator (12 Apr 1777-1852) Clay was really from the second generation of the Republic, but, … Continue reading
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Tagged Compatible, First Principles, Government, Henry Clay, Inimical, Liberty, Religion, Separate, United
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Frozen Infinity
The challenge brought last night was to write a poem about snow, ice, winter, spring and all the things these things bring. Who knew that albatrosses also mate for life? I didn’t know…. and…Here’s my attempt: Frozen Infinity by … Continue reading
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Tagged Albatross, Alive, Antarctica, Beauty, Blunder, Boom, Children, Cod, Consequence, Consign, Cost, Cub, Cycle, Design, Duty, Early Bird, Earth, Emperor, Feeling, Flood, Frozen, God Willing, Harsh, Hunter, Ice, Icicle, Infinity, Lean Times, Life, Loom, Manna, Melt, Meltwater, Migration, Mother Nature, Mother's Love, Narhal, New Life, Niche, North, Ocean, Peace, Pebble, Penguin, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Polar Bear, Polar Wind, Prey, Remind, Sense, Snow, Spring, Stone, Strife, Sun, Survive, Tapestry, Thaw, Tundra, Tusk, Tuxedo, Unfair, Unicorn, Waterfall, Winter, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: Idleness, Like Kisses, Must Be Stolen To Be Sweet
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. … Continue reading
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Tagged Exhausting, Fun, Idle, Idleness, Impossible, Jerome K Jerome, Kisses, Nothing, Occupation, Sweet, Thought For the Day, Wasting Time, Work
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