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First Principles: We Have Enough Religion To Make Us Hate, But Not Enough To Make Us Love One Another
“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” – Jonathan Swift
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Thought For the Day: Courage Is the Greatest of All Virtues, Because If You Haven’t Courage, You May Not Have An Opportunity To Use Any of the Others
“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” – Samuel Johnson
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First Principles: Without Religion, I Believe That Learning Does Real Mischief To the Morals and Principles of Mankind
“Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.” – Benjamin Rush (1783)
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Thought For the Day: The Most Important Scientific Revolutions All Include, As Their Only Common Feature, the Dethronement of Human Arrogance
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance.” -Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, author (10 Sep 1941-2002)
On the Journey of Fatherhood
On the Journey of Fatherhoodby Michael DoyleAsked about how fatherhood is ratedIt has seemed to me somewhat understatedI could not have imagined the journeyThat it has been in all of its totalityWhen you talk about consequences and moralityFatherhood is the … Continue reading
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First Principles: Liberty Is Not To Be Enjoyed, Indeed It Cannot Exist, Without the Habits of Just Subordination; It Consists, Not So Much In Removing All Restraint From the Orderly, As In Imposing It On the Violent
“Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.” – Fisher Ames (1801) Twice … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: I Cannot Think of Any Need In Childhood As Strong As the Need For a Father’s Protection
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
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Thought For the Day: The Most Reliable Way To Predict the Future Is To Create It
“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
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