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First Principles: It Is of Great Importance To Set A Resolution, Not To Be Shaken, Never To Tell An Untruth
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Contemptible, Disposition, Falsehood, First Principles, Heart, Importance, Lie, Resolution, Soul Shaken, Thomas Jefferson, Tongue, Untruth
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Thought For the Day: One of the Oldest Human Needs Is Having Someone Wonder Where You Are When You Don’t Come Home At Night
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978)
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Tagged Home, Human Need, Margaret Mead, Night, Old, Someone, Thought For the Day, Wonder
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In Great Expectation
In Great Expectationby Michael DoyleJoy is conceived in every seasonGod’s miracles rise without reasonGiving birth of great expectationWe must rejoice without exceptionMeant as an ask fully requestingWe want to know what we’re expectingThough at times it feels we’re driftingWe keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Birth, Drift, Exception, Expect, Explanation, Good, Great Expectation, Joy, Know, Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Revelation, Reverence, Season, Shift
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Thought For the Day: Ideas Are Indeed the Most Dangerous Weapons In the World
“Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.” – Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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Tagged Forge, Freedom, Ideas, Political, Thought For the Day, ustice William O. Douglas, World
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Coercision, Error, First Pricniiples, Government, Inquisitors, Opinion, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Those Who Profess To Favor Freedom and Yet Depreciate Agitation, Are People Who Want Crops Without Ploughing the Ground
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may … Continue reading
First Principles: They Define A Republic To Be A Government of Laws, and Not of Men
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams (1775)
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Tagged Define, First Principles, Government, John Adams, Laws, Men, Novanglis, Republic
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Thought For the Day: Above All, Every Member of the University Has An Obligation To Permit Free Expression In the University
“Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression … Continue reading
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Tagged C. Van Woodward, Ensure, Every Member, Expression, Free Expression, Obligation, Obstruct, Right, Thought For the Day, University
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First Principles: The Army (Considering the Irritable State It Is In, Its Suffering and Composition) Is A Dangerous Instrument To Play With
“The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.” – George Washington (1783)
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Jack’s Winter Glory
Jack’s Winter Gloryby Michael DoyleOnce upon a winter’s snowflakeThere was a Christmas wish to makeThere in that distant time and placeThere was magic for all to embraceAs tyranny suppressed simple peasantsUntil they could not afford Christmas presentsThe czar took every … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrive, Bells, Between the Mountains, Breeze, Christmas Wish, Countryside, Czar, Daydreams, Fountains, Fraction, Ground, Jack Frost, Magic, Mind, Nation, One of A Kind, Peasant, Please, Plenty, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Seams, Smiles, Snow, Snowflake, Snowstorms, Survive, Time and Place, Truth, Warm, Winter Glory, Wonderland, Worst of Times
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 