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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Evidence, Fact, Facts, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Passion, Sttae, Stubborn, Things, Wish
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Finished Ideas
To design for toying or for play allows the imagination to stray. Does it not? Finished Ideas by Michael Romani Finished ideas Have no place In the imagination All idylls To embrace With our fascination The only limitation Is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Circumstance, Design, Distraction, Elimination, Embrace, Fascination, Finish, Heart, Idea, Idyll, Imagination, Limitation, Object, Photograph, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Start, Then, Things, Toy, Way, When
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First Principles: We All Agree In the Obligation of the Moral Principles of Jesus and Nowhere Will They Be found Delivered In Greater Purity Than In His Discourses
“We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and Nowhere Will They Be Found Delivered In Greater Purity Than In His Discourses.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Agree, Discourses, First Principles, Found, Jesus, Moral, Obligation, Principles, Pure, Thomas Jefferson, We
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Thought For the Day: An Armed Society Is A Polite Society
“An armed society is a polite society.” – Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
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Tagged Acts, Armed, Back Up, Good, Life, manners, Polite, Robert A Heinlein, Society, Thought For the Day
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Counting Blessings
Based in part on Ephesians 1:3 – Counting Blessings by Michael Romani As this new year has begun My eyes focus clearly on the One The One who is all knowing And whose love is ever flowing The ways of … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Beatitudes, Bless, Blessing, Bondage, Born, Cast, Children, Christ, Contemplation, Count, Debt, Desire, Destination, Earth, Ephesians, Eyes, Flow, Focus, Forgive, Foundation, Future, God, Grace, He, Heaven, Invite, Kept, Kingdom, Know, Love, Material Things, New Year, One, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Promise, Prophecy, Purpose, Redemption, Restore, Riches, Salvation, Secure, Sin, Spirtual, Stars
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In Remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
May each of the readers of Aloha Promises Forever have a blessed day of service and communion on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 20, 2020. May we always join together with such clarity! “I have a dream that … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Character, Children, Clarity, Color, Communion, Content, Darkness, Division, Dream, Equal, Great Nation, Hate, January 20 2020, Light, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Nation, Self-Evident, Service, Skin, Thought For the Day, True, True Meaning, Truths, Unity
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Thought For the Day: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, That All Men Are Created Equal
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ – United States Declaration of Independence https://constitution.org/usdeclar.htm By this, it is meant all of mankind is seen as born equal before God and under the law. Our … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Created, Equal, Hold, Self-Evident, The People, Thought For the Day, Truth, United States Declaration of Independence, We
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First Principles: Only Aim To Do Your Duty And Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Aim, Art of Government, Counsel, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Legible, Manking, People, Principle, Right, Think, Thomas Jefferson, Wrong, Yourself
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To Life (L’Chaim)
Sundays like all other days are best lived with at least a touch of reverence for the divine. To Life (L’Chaim) by Michael Romani Life is long And often filled with questions Too many of which have no answers Only … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Answer, Assurance, Beam, Beauty, Belong, Blessed, Change, Choice, Connection, Contemplation, Cosmic Dancer, Direction, Divine, Divinity, Dream, Eternal, Final Keys, Free, Gentle, Gift, Given, God, Grace, Grief, Grow, Hand, Harden, Heart, Hesitation, Hope, Humor, Kindness, Kingdom, Know, L'Chaim, Lessen, Life, Lighthouse, Live, Love, Moonbeam, Multiple, Numbers, One, Peace, Photograph, Plurality, Poem, Poetry, Question, Relief, Return, Revelation, Reverence, Sacred, Secret, Smile, Soul, Spiritual, Stone, Struggle, Swan Dive, Touch, Truth, Understand, Union, Unity, Universe, View, Voice, Walk, Whisper, Wisdom, World
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Thought For the Day: When One Door Closes, Another Opens
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
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