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Thought For the Day: The Best Index To A Person’s Character Is (a) How He Treats People Who Can’t Do Him Any Good, and (b) How He Treats People Who Can’t Fight Back
“The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.” – Abigail Van Buren (August 1980)
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First Principles: The God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty At the Same Time; the Hand of Force May Destroy, But Cannot Disjoin Them
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
Thought For the Day: A Certain Amount of Opposition Is A Great Help To A Man. Kites Rise Against, Not With, the Wind
“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.” – John Neal, author and critic (25 Aug 1793-1876)
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Backstory
Backstoryby Michael DoyleIn the Christian communityThere are blessings in our familyIt’s a provident bit of spiritual wealthThat keeps us in godly healthAttending to our lives through celebrationThat holds the Trinity in fascinationAs we live our lives in the walkKeeping in … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Backstory, Blessings, Bump, Celebration, Children of God, Christian Community, Contemplation, Eternity, Family, Fascination, Godly, Hell, Lives, Poetry and Poems, Ransom Paid, Reason, Redemption, Season, Simple, Spiritual Wealth, Struggle, Trembe, Trinity, Unfold
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Thought For the Day: Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound That Saved A Wretch Like Me! I Once Was Lost But Now Am Found, Was Blind But Now I See
“Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now I see.” – John Newton
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First Principles: It Is By Grace You Have Been Saved, Through Faith – and This Is Not From Yourselves, It Is the Gift of God – Not By Works, So That No One Can Boast
” For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” – Ephesians 2:8-9
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Tagged Boast, Ephesians 2:8-9, Faith, First Principles, Gift of God, Grace, Saved, Self, Works
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Nat Turner’s Legacy
Nat Turner’s Legacyby Michael DoyleExceptions seldom make the ruleFoolish thinkers need their schoolThose who dwell on the mysteryOf why so few rose against slaveryIt is a cowardice of cultureThat we cannot afford to nurtureLet’s recall a moment of historyLived by … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, American History, Asunder, Blood and Brutality, Civil War, Country, Cowardice of Culture, Criticism, Death, Destiny, Dignity, Easy Lesson, Education, Equal Opportunity, Exceptions, Experiment, Field, Fight, Foolish Thinkers, Freedom and Liberty, God and Science, Greatest Republic, Hard Road, History, Incendiary, Inspiration, Ironic, Legacy, Liberty, Luxury, Mystery, Nat Turner, Ntion, Nurture, Optimism, Path Forward, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Promise, Prophecy, Rage, Re;public, Revelation, Revolution, Right, Satisfaction, School, Scourge, Sinners, Slavery, Soul, The Rule, Theology, Victory, Vision, Voice, Wickedness Revealed
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First Principles: We Know That Equality of Individual Ability Has Never Existed and Never Will, But We Do Insist That Equality of Opportunity Still Must Be Sought
“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Kamala Harris has made a great deal out about “equity”. That … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdity, Aware, Decline, Equal Outcome, Equality, Equality of Opportunity, Equity, Essential, Exist, First Principles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harmful, Illogic, Incentive, Individual Ability, Insist, Kamala Harris, Natoin, Pathological Destruction, Reward, Sloth, Society, Sought, Superior Talent, Well-Being
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Thought For the Day: Watch With Glittering Eyes the Whole World Around You Because the Greatest Secrets Are Always Hidden In the Most Unlikely Places
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 