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Thought For the Day: Excellence Demands Competition. Without A Race There Can Be No Champion, No Records Broken, No Excellence
“Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Champion, Competition, Demand, Education, Excellence, Race, Records Broken, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Walks of Life
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Ungrateful
Ungratefulby Michael DoyleThere is in core functionalityAn awakened and new sense of realityIt’s another bit from our biologyThat we’re given over to our technologyWe all have our half-hidden flawsDecidedly difficult as nature’s lawsThat breaking our loops is difficultAnd when we … Continue reading
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Tagged Awakened, Biology, Broken Keys, Confusion, Core Functionality, Crooked Notes, Expore, Flaws, Free, God, Humanity, Illusion, Indiscretion, Law, Learn, Loop, Nature, Pain, Please, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Progression, Reality, Revolt, Selfishness, Stop, Suffer, System, Technology, Thankful, True, Twisted, Ungrateful, View, Vision
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First Principles: The Cunning of the Fox Is As Murderous As the Violence of the Wolf
“It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as … Continue reading
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Tagged Conquest, Cunning, First Principles, Fox, Justice, Madness of Folly, Mercy, Murderous, Thomas Paine, Trick of War, Violence, Wolf
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Thought For the Day: An Artist Discovers His Genius the Day He Dares Not To Please
“An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.” – Andre Malraux, novelist, adventurer, art historian, and statesman (3 Nov 1901-1976)
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First Principles: The Time To Guard Against Corruption and Tyranny, Is Before They Have Gotten Hold On Us
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall … Continue reading
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Tagged Corruption, Enter, First Principles, Fold, Guard, Hold, Talons, Teeth, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tyranny, Wolf
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Thought For the Day: The Very Word ‘Secrecy’ Is Repugnant In A Free and Open Society
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.” – John F. Kennedy
Thought For the Day: Ten Million Ignorances Do Not Constitute One Knowledge
“Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.” – Clemens von Metternich (1773-1859)
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A Quiet Reflection On This November Day
A Quiet Reflection On This November Day by Michael Doyle What is a poem really but to say That love, joy and sorrow come to play In the heart and then inside the mind Until the words burst out … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Cared, Confidence, Deserve, Discern, Ease, Eureka, Find, Fit, Harvest, Heart, Heed, Human Beings, Intention, Joy, Light of Day, Lives, Loud, Love, Mind, November, Past, Peek, Play, Please, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Present, Proud, Quiet Reflection, Recall, Say, Seen, Shape, Shared, Smile, Sorrow, Truths, Week, Words
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First Principles: Let Each Citizen Remember At the Moment He Is Offering His Vote That…He Is Executing One of the Most Solemn Trusts In Human Society
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Citizen, Compliment, Country, First Principles, God, Human Society, Individual, Moment, Present, Remember, Samuel Adams, Solemn Trust, Vote
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 