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Thought For the Day: The Fruit Derived From Labor Is the Sweetest of Pleasures
“The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.” – Luc de Clapiers (1715-1747)
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is More Desirable Than To Be Released From An Affliction, But Nothing Is More Frightening Than To Be Divested of A Crutch
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.” – James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace
“To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington (1790)
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Thought For the Day: Our Own Heart, and Not Other Men’s Opinions Form Our True Honor
“Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions form our true honor.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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First Principles: It Is the Madness of Folly, To Expect Mercy From Those Who Have Refused To Do Justice
“It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as … Continue reading
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Tagged Conquest, Cunning, Expect, First Principles, Folly, Fox, Justice, Madness, Mercy, Murderous, Refused, Thomas Paine, Trick of War, Violence, Wolf
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Thought For the Day: If the Vaccines Work, Why Insist That Inoculated People Need To Be Masked?
“If the vaccines work, why insist that inoculated people need to be masked?” – Anonymously Just About Every Rational Person Who Follows Real Science….
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First Principles: They That Can Give Up Essential Liberty To Purchase A Little Temporary Safety, Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Safety
“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin (1759)
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Storybook Kind of Love
Storybook Kind of Loveby Michael Doyle She wants a storybookKind of love –Only she wants itWith dirty picturesIt only took one lookTo dream along the something of – Need, …craven at first biteHer painted lights hypnotized my mind She was … Continue reading
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Tagged Affections, Attraction, Be So Lucky, Behind the Mask, Broken, Coloring, Crayons, Dazzle, Dirty Pictures, Distraction, Dream Along, Faking, Fallen Together, Favored, Golden, High Heels, Hypnotize, King, Love, Movements, My Mind, Need, Not the Kind, One Look, Painted Lights, Passion, Poetry and Poems, Priceless, Princess, Rook, Screen Shots, Silent Screams, Stolen Moments, Storybook, Sunday Worship, Token, Unspoken, World
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First Principles: To Cherish and Stimulate the…Human Mind…Is Not Among the Least Considerable of the Expedients, By Which the Wealth of A Nation May Be Promoted
“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.” – Alexander Hamilton (1791)
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Thought For the Day: Older Men Declare War. But It Is Youth That Must Fight and Die
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” -Herbert Hoover, 31st US president (10 Aug 1874-1964)
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