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Thought For the Day: The Happiness of Your Life Depends Upon the Quality of Your Thoughts; Therefore, Guard Accordingly, and Take Care That You Entertain No Notions Unsuitable To Virtue and Reasonable Nature
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
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Tagged Depends, Entertain, Guard, Happiness, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Nature, Notions, Quality, Reasonable, Take Care, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Unsuitable, Virtue
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First Principles: The Principle of Spending Money To Be Paid By Posterity, Under the Name of Funding, Is But Swindling Futurity On A Large Scale
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged First Principles, Funding, Futurity, Large Scale, Paid, Posterity, Principle, Spending Money, Swindling, Thomas Jefferson
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There Is A Dream
There Is A Dreamby Michael DoyleThere is a dreamInside our reflectionA silent sort of screamThat escapes the world’s detectionA world that no one else can seeIn an answer in search of questionsThat we won’t ask in possibilityA mirrored echo of … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Believer, Better, Build, Choice, Defiance, Destination, Detection, Dignify, Dream, Echo, Escape, Form, Found, Ground, Grow, Hearts, Hesitation, Investigation, Keep, Minds, Mirror, Mysteries, Open, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Power, Question, Reach Beyond, Reality, Reflection, Render, Revealed, Roads, Scream, See, Selves, Silent, Singular, Splendor, Tether, Tomorrow, Trap, Travel, Truth, Unaware, Unravel, Voice, Wishes, World
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Thought For the Day: To the Complaint, “There Are No People In These Photographs,”, I Respond, “There Are Always Two People: the Photographer and the Viewer”
“To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, ‘There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.’” – Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984)
First Principles: If the Public Are Bound To Yield Obedience To Laws To Which They Cannot Give Their Approbation, They Are Slaves To Those Who Make Such Laws and Enforce Them
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” – Candidus (1772)
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Tagged Anti-Federalist Papers, Approbation, Bound, Candidus, Cannot, Enforce, First Principles, Laws, Obedience, Public, Samuel Adams, Slaves, To Those, Yield
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Break the Bias
Today March 8, 2022, is the the International Day of Women. This year there is a special emphasis on breaking the bias in gender inequality. I think that while there might be some factors involved in this day that might … Continue reading
First Principles: One Unerring Mark of the Love of Truth Is Not Entertaining Any Proposition With Greater Assurance Than the Proofs It Is Built Upon Will Warrant
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.” – John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704
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Tagged Assurance, Built, Entertaining, First Principles, John Locke, Love of Truth, Proofs, Proposition, Unerring Mark, Warrant
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Thought For the Day: You Know Your Brain Is Broken When You Think Foreign Oil Is Better For the Environment Than American Oil
“You know your brain is broken when you think foreign oil is better for the environment than American oil.” – Congressman Dan Crenshaw
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Tagged American Oil, Better, Brain, Broken, Congressman Dan Crenshaw, Enivornment, Foreign Oil, Know, Think, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: If History Teaches Anything, It Teaches Self-Delusion In the Face of Unpleasant Facts Is Folly
“If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.” – President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
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Tagged Anything, Face, Facts, Folly, History, Self-Delusion, Teach, Thought For the Day, Unpleasant
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