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Thought For the Day: We Cannot Seem To Escape the Desire To Feel Productive With Our Time. I’m Not Sure If That’s By Choice or Trauma
“We cannot seem to escape the desire to feel productive with our time. I’m Not Sure If That’s By Choice or Trauma.” – Jonny Sun
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Tagged Choice, Desire, Escape, Feel, Jonny Sun, Productive, Seem, Thought For the Day, Time, Trauma
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First Principles: The Principle of Spending Money To Be Paid By Posterity, Under the Name of Funding, Is But Swindling Futurity On A Large Scale
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged First Principles, Funding, Futurity, Large Scale, Paid, Posterity, Principle, Spending Money, Swindle, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: They Define A Republic To Be A Government of Laws, and Not of Men
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams (1775)
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Tagged Define, First Principles, Government, John Adams, Law, Not of Men, Republic
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Thought For the Day: Humans Think They Are Smarter Than Dolphins Because We Build Cars and Buildings and Start Wars…Dolphins Believe That They Are Smarter For Exactly the Same Reasons
“Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly … Continue reading
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Tagged Buildings, Cars, Dolphins, Douglas Adams, Fish, Humans, Play, Same Reasons, Smart, Smarter, Start War, Swim, Thought For the Day, Water
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With Uplifted Voice
With Uplifted Voiceby Michael DoyleWith uplifted voiceWe join in our praiseKeeping the spirit to rejoiceThroughout our daysAs long as the day has lengthThe Lord is my special strengthAs the days pass, once againWe end each prayer with AmenProtecting us as … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Foot Tall, Amen, Chains, Circumstance, Darkness, Days, Fall, Freinds, God, Hand-In-Hand, Join Hands, Length, Libery, Light, Link, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pottect, Praise, Prayer, Rejoice, Sins, Soul, Spirit, Story Ends, Strength, Strong, Uplift, Victory, Victory Song, Vidtory, Voice, Washed
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Thought For the Day: Strength Does Not Come From Winning. Your Struggles Develop Your Strengths. When You Go Through Hardships and Decide Not To Surrender, That Is Strength
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, Come, Decide, Develop, Hardship, Strength, Struggles, Surrender, Thought For the Day, Winning
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First Principles: Naked I Came From My Mother’s Womb and Naked I will Depart. The Lord Gave and the Lord Has Taken Away; May the Name of the Lord Be Praised
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart.[a]The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” – Job 1:21
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Tagged Came, Depart, First Principles, Gave, Job 1:21, Mother's Womb, Naked, Name, Praise, Taken Away, The Lord
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A Void of Emptiness
A Void of Emptinessby Michael DoyleApproaching the study of the edges of space Has only begun as technology sets the paceFor the time, it must be studied in deferenceAs it is a humbling, character-building experienceThe stars we watch are like … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Alone, Anguish, Approach, Bell Jars, Better Angels, Beyond, Bleak, Bond, Breathing, Burn, Character Building, Choose, Compelling, Conversations, Crash, Cruelty, Decontamination, Deference, Distant Stars, Ebb and Flow, Edge, Emptiness, Envy, Essence, Experience, Fail, Fear, Flow, Forest, Happiness, Heads, Hear, Heirs Apparent, Human Heart, Humbling, Hurt, Imagination, Intrude, Jealousy, Know, Learn, Loneliness, Love One Another, Made of Stone, Making Friends, Moments, Mortals, Moving Sea, Muddy Waters, Need, One Another, Others, Ourselves, Ovens, Overwhelming, Pangs, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Shore, So Much Love, Soul Revealing, Space, Stars, Strive, Study, Suffering, Sum, Swear, Taking Form, Technology, Transparent, Trees, Vanity, Voice, Void, Voyage, Watch, Watch Back, Waves, Wear, Wore, Worn
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First Principles: Do What You Can, With What You Have, Where You Are
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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Tagged Are, Can, Do, First Principles, Have, Theodore Roosevelt, What, Where
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Thought For the Day: The Best Way To Predict the Future Is To Create It
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
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Tagged Best, Create, Future, Peter Drucker, Predict, Thought For the Day, Way
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