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Thought For the Day: The Key To A Successful Life Is To Find Your Passion and Pursue It With Dedication
“The key to a successful life is to find your passion and pursue it with dedication.” – Peter Frampton
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Tagged Dedication, Find, Key, Life, Passion, Peter Frampton, Pursue, Success, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: This Calls For Patient Endurance On the Part of the People of God Who Keep His Commands and Remain Faithful To Jesus
“This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.” – Revelation 14:12
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Tagged Call, Commands, Endurance, Faithul, First Principles, Jesus, Patient, People of God, Revelation 14:12
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First Principles: Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few, and Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence — true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, All, Appellation, Confidence, Courteous, Entitle, Few, First Principles, George Washington, Intimate, Plant, Shocks, Slow Growth, True Friendship, Well Tried, Withstand
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Thought For the Day: You Must Protest. It Is Your Diamond Duty. Ah But In Such An Ugly Time, the True Protest Is Beauty
“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.”-Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976)
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Tagged Beauty, Diamond Duty, Phil Ochs, Protest, Thought For the Day, True Protest, Ugly Time
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Standing At the Brink
Standing At the Brinkby Michael DoyleThis age of prevailing ill-liberalismBreeds little but despair and pessimismThere’s a breakdown in our societyThat has brought us into a time of anxietyOnce beautiful cities have turned into blightIt seems we are falling into our … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Age, Anxiety, Beautiful Cities, Birth, Blight, Breakdown, Breed, Brink, Changes, Civil War, Common Good, Connect, Constitutino, Continuity, Darkest Night, Decide, Democracy, Despair, Destined, Divide, Dustbin, Eco-Theology, Economic Deicsions, Edge, Electronic Distraction, Elite, Fail, Future, Historical Inevitability, History, Hope, Ill-Liberalism, Leaders, Lost, Misunderstood, Mob Rule, Nation, New Humanity, Next, Oligarchy, Order and Stability, Ordinary People, Overturn, Pessimism, Pharmaceutical, Plumbing Project, Poetry and Poems, Pollution, Ponzi Schemes, Poor, Prevail, Priority, Progressive Empathy, Recovery, Recreation, Result, Riddle, Schools, Society, Solution, Stand, Student Loans, The People, Threat, Time, True Progress, Tyranny, Wept, Yesterday's Debt
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First Principles: Far From Being Rivals Or Enemies Religion and Law Are Twin Sisters, Friends, and of Mutual Assistance
“Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. Far from being rivals or enemies religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistance. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other.‘ … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Divine, Enemies, First Principles, Friends, Human Law, James Wilson, Law, Mutual Assistance, Religion, Rivals, Twin Sisters, Two Sciences
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Thought For the Day: The Hardest Single Part of Building A Software System Is Deciding Precisely What To Build
“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Build, Decide, Detail, Fred Brooks, Hard, Know, Part, Precise, Problem, Question, Software, Specified, System, Thought, Thought For the Day, Truth
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First Principles: Without Liberty, Law Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Oppression. Without Law, Liberty Also Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Licentiousness
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson (1790)
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Tagged First Principles, James Wilson, Law, Liberty, Licentiousness, Lose, Name, Nature, Oppression
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