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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time When the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adopted, Conform, Constitution, Debates, First Principles, Invested, Meaning, Passed, Probable, Question of Construction, Spirit Manifested, Squeezed, Text, Thomas Jefferson, Time
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Thought For the Day: The Happiest Is the Person Who Suffers the Least Pain; the Most Miserable Who Enjoys the Least Pleasure
“The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author (28 Jun 1712-1778)
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Tagged Enjoy, Happiest, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Least, Least Pain, Most Miserable, Person, Pleasure, Suffer, Thought For the Day
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Holistic Commitment
Holistic Commitmentby Michael DoyleThere is no real culture of lifeWithout the culture of married familyHere in this world filled with strifeThis is not just an empty homilyBut a call for holistic commitmentTo which there should be no resentmentBut a desire … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, All Life Is Sacred, Baseless Fears, Better Place, Blessing, Brutality, Call, Candles Lit, Child Born, Cloud of Darkness, Commitment, Conversation, Culture of Life, Darkness, Death of Innocence, Desire, Earth, End, Every Child's Life, Experience, Fully Capable, Good Difference, Good Principles, Holistic, Hope, Intend, Irresponsibility, Kill, Love, Loveless World, Married Family, Miracle, Moment of Birth, Others, Poetry and Poems, Pregnancy Care, Refuse, Rejection, Replace, Resentment, Righteous, Silence, Spoken, Strife, Support, Treat, Unfold, Violence, Vulnerable, Walking Away, World
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Thought For the Day: Love Is the Only Force Capable of Transforming An Enemy Into A Friend
“Love is the only Force Capable of Transforming An Enemy Into A Friend” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tagged Enemy, Friend, Love, Martin Luther King Jr., Only Force, Thought For the Day, Transform
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First Principles: Public Virtue Cannot Exist In A Nation Without Private, and Public Virtue Is the Only Foundation of Republics
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of … Continue reading
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Tagged Exist, First Principles, Foundation, Honor, John Adams, Liberty, Mercy Warren, Minds, Nation, Positive Passion, Power and Glory, Private, Private Passions, Public Good, Public Interest, Public Passion, Public Virtue, Republican Government, Republics, Superior, The People
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First Principles: The Fruit of the Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control. Against Such Things There Is No Law
“ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” – Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)
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Tagged Faithfulness, First Principles, Forbearance, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22-23, Gentleness, Goodness, Joy, Kindness, Love, No Law, Peace, Self-Control
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Thought For the Day: I Believe the Greatest Gift I Can Conceive of Having From Anyone Is To Be Seen, Heard, Understood, and Touched By Them
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Person, Anyone, Believe, Conceive, Give, Greatest Gift, Have, Heard, Seen, Thought For the Day, Touch, Understood, Virginia Satir
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Inspired By Conversation
Inspired By Conversationby Michael DoyleLife has its hitsThat come along the wayThe Devil has his duesWe all have to payIt’s a slow paradeThe passage of these yearsFilled with ups and downsIts smiles and its tearsBut of all the thingsThat have … Continue reading
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Tagged Along the Way, Beauty, Belong, Caught, Come and Gone, Connections, Conversation, Dare, Dawn, Destination, Devil, Dream, Dues, Exchange, Fascination, Favorite Song, Feel, Fire, Hits, Hope, Inside Joke, Inspire, Life, Lyrics, Note, Passage, Pay, Poetry and Poems, Rainbow Constellation, Real, Shimmer, Slow Parade, Smiles, Smoke, Soul Shine, Time, True, Ups and Downs, Wish, Words
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Thought For the Day: Everybody Knows That the Family Is the Bedrock of Any Society
“Everybody knows that the family is the bedrock of any society because it is in the family that the child learns how to be — how to be cultivated, how to be mannerly, how to have values. And if we … Continue reading
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Tagged Bedrock, Child, Children, Cultivated, Family, Know, Learn, Mannerly, Meaning, Society, Thought For the Day, Values, Winsome Sears
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