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Thought For the Day: I Saw the Angel In the Marble and Carved Until I Set Him Free
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.“ – Michelangelo Buounarroti
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First Principles: Whensoever Hostile Aggression…Requires A Resort To War, We Must Meet Our Duty and Convince the World That We Are Just Friends and Brave Enemies
“Whensoever hostile aggression…requires a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Brave Enemies, Convince, Duty, First Principles, Hostile Aggression, Just Friends, Resort, The World, Thomas Jefferson, War
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Thought For the Day: The World Is A Dangerous Place To Live, Not Because of the People Who Are Evil, But Because of the People Who Don’t Do Anything About It
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955
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First Principles: How Strangely Will the Tools of A Tyrant Pervert the Plain Meaning of Words
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” — Samuel Adams, 1776
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Tagged First Principles, Plain Meaning, Samuel Adams, Strange, Tools, Tyrant, Will, Words
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Parasitic Pathogens
Parasitic Pathogensby Michael DoyleParasitic pathogensEffect our societyWhether it’s the lunacy Of the politically correctOr the social constructionThat derives from mass anxietyOf tribalistic social identityDiversity, identity, and equityEach seeks allegiance to its ideologyBad ideas escape the laboratoryWe should never surrender to … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegiance, Anxiety, De Minimis, Diversity, Epistemology, Equity, Identity, Ideology, Lies, Lunacy, Noise, Nomological, Parasitic Pathogens, Poetry and Poems, Politically Correct, Post-Modernism, Reason, Satire, Social Construction, Social Identity, Society, Steady March, Surrender, Tabula Rasa, Tribal, Truth, Universal Truths, Woke
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Thought For the Day: Concentrate All Your Thoughts Upon the Work At Hand. The Sun’s Rays Do Not Burn Until Brought To A Focus.
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (3 Mar 1847-1922)
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First Principles: Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition
“(F)alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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Tagged Believe, Depraves, Falsehood, First Principles, Good Dispositions, Habitual, Heart, Lie, Lies, Permit, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tongue, Truths
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Bad Data Rejected
Bad Data Rejectedby Michael DoyleBad dataMay be big dataBut false is always untrueAnd should be rejectedWhen you call a strangerWho knows the dangerOf talking to a snooty pollsterOut to collect dataThat confirms opinions, not factsYou’re going to get skewThe results … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Data, Bias, Call, Collect, Danger, Elected, Facts, False, Injected, Opinions, Pluralistic, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pollster, Realistic, Rejected, Results, Skew, Stranger, Untrue
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First Principles: If Virtue and Knowledge Are Diffused Among the People, They Will Never Be Enslaved. This Will Be Their Great Security
“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.” – Samuel Adams (1779)
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Tagged Diffused, Enslaved, First Principles, Great Security, Knowledge, Samuel Adams, The People, Virtue
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