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First Principles: What Can Be Added To the Happiness of A Man Who Is In Health, Out of Debt, and Has A Clear Conscience?
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” – Adam Smith, economist (5 Jun 1723-1790)
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Thought For the Day: I Think I Was Wrong…About the Path that Inflation Would Take
“I think I was wrong … about the path that inflation would take.” – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen No kidding? In the country where I grew up (the United States) when a person failed this badly at their job and … Continue reading
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Tagged Inflation, Janet Yellen, Path, Secretary of Treasury, Take, Think, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Whatever Is My Right As A Man Is Also the Right of Another; and It Becomes My Duty To Guarantee As Well As To Possess
“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.” – Thomas Paine
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We Pretend To Have Forgot
We Pretend To Have Forgotby Michael DoyleI don’t like thingsThat are too touchy and feelyThe reason whyIs these might reveal meWith the turn of the pageIt’s less in what we sayBut the how that we rageAs night fights against dayThese … Continue reading
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Tagged Care, Day, Deal, Flowers, Forgot, Grief, Keep, Meaning, Night, Pluck the Petals, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Pretending, Promises, Puzzle, Rag, Real, Reason Why, Reveal, Say, Times, Touchy and Feely, Turn of the Page, Weep, Willow, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay first the foundation of Humility
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” -St. Augustine (354-430)
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Tagged Begin, Clouds, Descend, Foundation, Humility, Pierce, Plan, Rise, St. Augustine, Thought For the Day, Tower, Wish
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First Principles: Laws That Forbid the Carrying of Arms…Disarm Only Those Who Are Neither Inclined Nor Determined To Commit Crimes
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to … Continue reading
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Tagged Armed Man, Arms, Assailants, Assaulted, Cesare Beccaria, Crimes, Determined, Disarm, Encourage, First Principles, Forbid, Greater Confidence, Homocides, Inclined, Laws, Prevent, Unarmed, Worse
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Thought For the Day: The Question About Progress Has Become the Question Whether We Can Discovery Any Way of Submitting To the Worldwide Paternalism of A Technocracy Without Losing All Personal Privacy and Independence
“The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State’s … Continue reading
First Principles: Nothing Is More Certain Than That A General Profligacy and Corruption of Manners Make A People Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading
Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?
Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?by Michael DoyleThe teenaged yearsOf Saturday night solitudeWas a parade of smiles and tearsAnd many dramasWaiting to intrudeInto the happiness that cameAnd that provided the frameIn moments of ShakespeareThat kept us awakeMaking us braver than our … Continue reading
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Tagged Along the Way, Awake, Bless, Bolder, Brave, Broken Hearts, Choosing, Complexity, Confide, Contemplative, Dramas, Each Step, Edge, Edit, False Starts, Fear, Fight, Frame, Garden Variety, Good, Happiness, Hesitations, Hide, Human Beings, Inquisitive, Intrude, Issues, Losing, Million Ways, Moments, Negatives, Older, Passing By, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Questions, Saturday Night, Secrets, Seen, Shakespeare, Sigh, Smiles and Tears, Solittude, Souls, Take, Tears, Teenaged Years, Thinking, Thought, Tissues, Unseen, Walks, Wars of Love, Wobble, World, Younger Days
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