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First Principles: The Dictates of Our Passions…Cannot Alter the State of Facts and Evidence
“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, Dictates, Facts, Facts and Evdience, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Law, Passion, Stable, Stubborn Things, Wishes
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Thought For the Day: The Hands That Help Are Better Far Than Lips That Pray. Love Is the Ever Gleaming Star That Leads the Way
“The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Far, Bliss, Hands, Help, Lead, Lips, Love, Paradise, Pray, Robert Green Ingersoll, Shine, Star, Thought For the Day
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Three Things In Life
Three Things In Lifeby Michael DoyleThere is something to the power of threeThat speaks to heart and soul of divinityIt seems it all begins and ends with loveWithout which there is no gaining heaven aboveThere are three things in life … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Divnity, Easy, Heat and Soul, Heaven, Love, Opportunity, Poetry and Poems, Power of Three, Recall, Test, Three Things In Life, Time, Words
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists In the Art of Being Honest. Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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Tagged 1774, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Aim, Consists, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Government, Honest, Mankind, Whole Art
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Thought For the Day: You Don’t Say Loving Because You Grow Old, You Grow Old Because You Stop Loving
“You don’t stop loving because you grow old, you grow old because you stop loving.” – Michael Pritchard
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Tagged 2023, Grow Old, Happy Valentine's Day, Michael Pritchard, Stop Loving, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Susceptible of Very Different Glosses, Begat In the Mind A Distrust of Itself
“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Contagious, Different Glosses, Distrust, First Principles, James Madison, Mind, Nothing, Opinion, Questions
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Thought For the Day: How Did American Capitalism Survive the End of Chattel Slavery?
“Slavery has been a fact of human existence throughout recorded history. Why did it suddenly create capitalism a couple of centuries ago in a few select places, namely the Netherlands, Britain and the American colonies? Why didn’t the Romans create … Continue reading
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Tagged American Capitalism, American Colonies, American Institute of Economic Research, Britain, Capitalism, Capitalist, Chattel Slavery, Cotton, GDP, Human Existence, Netherlands, North, Prosperity, Recorded History, Rich Lowery, Romans, Slavery, The Spanish, Thought For the Day, Vikings
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Giving Is A Heart Matter
Giving Is A Heart Matterby Michael DoyleChurch can be satisfying and funWith all of God’s delights to be doneLeaning in for the moments of developmentWorship done properly leads to contentmentUnified and faith-filled the church leadsTo spiritual sanctification and Godly deedsLife … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Called Out, Church, Commitment, Community, Contentment, Decision, Delight, Development, Faith-Filled, Family, Fun, Generosity, Giving, God, Grace, Gratitude, Guidance, Heart Matter, Live, Live Out, Love In Action, Pastor, Path, Poetry and Poems, Received, Right Attitude, Sage, Sanctification, Sow, Standards, Stewardship
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First Principles: Government…Should Be Formed To Secure and Enlarge the Exercise of the Natural Rights of Its Members
“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: I See Too Plainly Custom Forms Us All. Our Thoughts, Our Morals, Our Most Fixed Belief, Are Consequences of Our Place of Birth
“I see too plainly custom forms us all. Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth.” – Aaron Hill, dramatist and writer (10 Feb 1685-1750)
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Tagged Aaron Hill, All, Belief, Consequence, Custom, Form, Morals, Place of Birth, Plain, Thought For the Day, Thoughts
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 