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Thought For the Day: Anyone Can Be Passionate, But It Takes Real Lovers To Be Silly
“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” – Rose Franken, author and playwright (28 Dec 1895-1988)
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First Principles: Where the Press Is Free and Every Man Able To Read, All Is Safe
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” – Thomas Jefferson, to Charles Yancey (1816)
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Thought For the Day: If We Would Have New Knowledge, We Must Get Us A Whole World of New Questions
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.” -Susanne Langer, philosopher (20 Dec 1895-1985)
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First Principles: Government Is Instituted For the Common Good; For the Protections, Safety, Prosperity and Happiness of the People; and Not for Profit, Honor or Private Interest of Any One Man, Family or Class of Men
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an … Continue reading
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Tagged Any One, Class of Man, Common Good, Family, First Principles, Government, Happiness, Honor, Instituted, John Adams, Man, Not For Profit, Private Interest, Prosperity, Protection, Safety, The People
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Life Worth Living
Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Conditions Upon Which God Hath Given Liberty To Man Is Eternal Vigilance
“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the … Continue reading
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Tagged Active, Break, Common, Condition, Condtion, Consequence, Crime, Eternal Vigilance, Fate, God, Guilt, Indolent, John Philpot Curran, Liberty, Man, Prey, Punishment, Rights, Servitude, Thought For the Day
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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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Thought For the Day: I Am the Light of the World. Whoever Follows Me Will Never Walk In Darkness, but Will Have the Light of Life
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” – Jesus, quoted in John 8:12
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First Principles: No Man Has A More Perfect Reliance On the Alwise and the Powerful Dispensations of the Supreme Being Than I Nor Thinks His Aid More Necessary
“No Man has a more perfect Reliance on the alwise, and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have nor thinks his aid more necessary.” – George Washington
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