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Thought For the Day: The Off-Ramp Out of Extreme Poverty Is, Ugh, Commerce, It’s Entrepreneurial Capitalism
“I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when … Continue reading
First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty. Suspect Every One Who Approaches That Jewel
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
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In the Tomes of Humanity
In the Tomes of Humanityby Michael DoyleAlgorithms of simplicityMakeup humanity’s complexityWith habits easy enough to understandAs the madness takes over as plannedMost waiver between love and prideSometimes this happens to coincideThen there are the exceptions irreducibleThat’s what’s become of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Algorithms, Brave Souls, Broken Bodies, Choice, Codices, Coincide, Competitive Advantages, Complexity, Contemptible, Cost, Countless, Coup, Death, Doom, Exceptions, Face Off, False Promises, Final Battle, Garden, Habits, Humanity, Keeping, Last Breath, Libraries, Lost, Love, Madness, Mankind, Overcomes, Pain, Planned Obsolescence, Precipice, Price, Pride, Real Life, Recall, Sacred Door, Simplicity, Smile, Tomes, Truth, Understand, Victories, Villainies, Volumes, Waiver, Warrior's Voice, Weeping, Winner Take All, Wise Mother, Worth
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First Principles: A Rigid Economy of the Public Contributions and Absolute Interdiction of All Useless Expenses Will Go Far Towards Keeping Government Honest and Unoppressive
“A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.” – Thomas Jefferson (1823)
Thought For the Day: I Think There Is Only One Quality Worse Than Hardness of Heart, and That Is Softness of Head
“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.” –Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (27 Oct 1858-1919)
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Held In Silence
Held In Silenceby Michael DoyleDarling, I’ve learned to love youBut somehow hate you moreDarling,I could never be without youBut trust me, I know the scoreThe traces may be coldFrom the fenced goods soldAll the secrets circled roundTo the treasures; they … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Darkness, Darling, Don Quixote, Fenced Goods, Found, Grieving Widow, Harshness, Hate, Held, Hope, Light, Lonely Mother, Love, Night, Poetry and Poems, Pray Alone, Right, Score, Scream, Secrets, Sense, Silence, Squeeze, Startlled, Traces, Trust, Understand, Violence, Without
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Thought For the Day: Art Is the Elimination of the Unnecessary
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” – Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (25 Oct 1881-1973)
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First Principles: Enlighten the People, Generally, and Tyranny and Oppressions of the Body and Mind Will Vanish Like Spirits At the Dawn of Day
“Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged Body and Mind, Dawn, Day, Enlighten, First Principles, Oppressions, Spirits, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: An Entirely New and Unique and Dense Sort of Ignorance Will Be Manufactured By A Combination of Censorship of the Press and.. By the Press
“An entirely new and unique and dense sort of ignorance will be manufactured by a combination of censorship of the Press and censorship by the Press.” – G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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Tagged Censorship, Combination, Entire, G.K. Chesterton, Ignorance, Manufactured, New, Press, Thought For the Day, Unique
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First Principles: The Best Means of Forming A…Virtuous, and Happy People Will Be Found In the Right Education of Youth
“The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.” – George Washington (1784) The only thing needed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Fail, First Principles, Forming, Foundation, George Washington, Happy, Mankind, Means, Opinion, People, Right Education, Virtue, Youth
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