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First Principles: Every Government Degenerates When Trusted To the Rulers of the People Alone. The People Themselves, Therefore, Are Its Only Safe Depositories
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Thought For the Day: If You Want To Make Peace With Your Enemy, You Have To Work With Your Enemy. Then He Becomes Your Partner
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013
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First Principles: We Must Take Human Nature As We Find It, Perfection Fails Not To the Share of Mortals
“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” – George Washington (1786)
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Tagged Fail, Find, First Principles, George Washington, Human Nature, Mortals, Perffection, Share, Take, We
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Thought For the Day: In Any Given Moment We Have Two Options: To Step Forward Into Growth Or Step Back Into Safety
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.” -Abraham Maslow
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Road Trips With My Daughters 2024
Road Trips With My Daughters 2024by Michael DoyleThere’s a sort of magic I learned as I grewThat traveling with children reveals anewThe wonders and enchantments there are to findAlong with the souvenirs that serve to remindOne of the places gone … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Adventure, Beach, Believe, Bliss, Children, Creativity, Daughters, Dinner, Families, Glory, Growth, Happiness, Hours, Imagination, Ingenuity, Innovation, Investment, Lake Erie, Mage, Memories, Michigan, Perfection, Place, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Road Trip, Souvenirs, Story, Summer's Sun, Sunset, The Henry Ford, Travel, Understand, Wonders
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First Principles: To Render Us Again One People Acting As One Nation Should Be the Object of Every Man Really A Patriot
“To render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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Through the Son
Through the Sonby Michael DoyleThere’s something in my attitudeIt’s heard in my love and gratitudeOn my knees, I am prayingOn my lips, I am sayingHallelujah, for all my healingThere is grace in all I’m feelingHere in all my daysI keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Belong, Dark and Light, Days, Death to Life, Deliver, Divine, Done, Feel, Gift, Glory, Grace, Gratitude, Greater Things, Hallelujah, Heal, Heard, Heart, Jesus, King, Knees, Lift Up, Lips, Living, My Love, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Rewrote, Right, Say, Signs, Sing, Song, Soul, Story, Through Jesus, Through The Son, Wonder, Wonders, Words
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First Principles: The Ingredients Which Constitute Energy In the Executive Are, First, Unity; Secondly, Duration; Thirdly, An Adequate Provision For Its Support; Fourthly, Competent Powers
“The ingredients which constitute energy in the Executive are, first, unity; secondly, duration; thirdly, an adequate provision for its support; fourthly, competent powers.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 70 (1788)
Thought For the Day: Traveling – It Leaves You Speechless, Then Turns You Into A Storyteller
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”– Ibn Battuta
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