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Thought For the Day: Success Is No Accident. It is Hard Work, Perseverance, Learning, Studying, Sacrifice and Most of All, Love of What You Are Doing Or Learning To Do
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, and Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Capacity, Care, Children, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, First Principles, Grovel and Creep, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Minds
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The Twinkle In Your Eyes
The Twinkle In Your Eyesby Michael DoyleLooking into the twinkle in your eyesTruth is told simply without any alibisI love the way you hold me close at nightAnd even closer with the morning’s lightTwo hearts learning to beat as our … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat, Chance, Deeper Relationship, Easy, Eyes, God, Hear, Hold Me Close, Hypnotized, Lifetime Spent, Look, Love, Love Songs, Loving Example, Melt, Moments, Morning Light, Near, Night, One, Passing Sun, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Simple, Sing, Sweet, Tender, Trance, Truth, Twinkle, Two Hearts, You Laugh, Your Eyes, Your Heart
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First Principles: There Is A Degree of Depravity In Mankind Which Requires A Certain Degree of Circumspection and Distrust
“As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 55 (1788)
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Tagged Certain Degree, Circumspection, Degree, Depravity, Distrust, Federalist Paper No. 55, First Principles, James Madison, Mankind, Require
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Thought of the Day: The Road Goes Ever On and On
“The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began,Now far ahead the Road has goneAnd I must follow, if I can. “ – J.R.R. Tolkien
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Thought For the Day: Whoever Exalts Him Or Herself Will Be Humbled and Whoever Humbles Themselves Will Be Exalted
“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” – Jesus as quoted in the Book of Matthew 24:12
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First Principles: The Public Cannot Be Too Curious Concerning the Characters of Public Men
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” -Samuel Adams (1775)
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Getting To the Photographer’s Prize
Getting To the Photographer’s Prizeby Michael DoyleIf you don’t want to be left in the lurchIt is always best to start with researchTrying to find the photo with something to sayCannot best be left to an improvised dayThere is not … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdundantly, Access, All of the Best, Best, Best Direction, Best Ways, Blessing, Ca;pture, Capacity, Clear, Dazzle, Deer In the Headlights, Details, Dream, Email, Embrace, Equal, Eyes, Face, Find, Focus, Forget, Function of Time, Gam, Getting To the Great, Guest, Homework, Improvised, Intimation, Intrigue, Keys, Left, Lurch, Magic, Making Connection, Mental Aggravation, Might Known, Nonverbal Communication, Observer, Others, Photo, Photographer, Phototgraph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Possess, Presentation, Prize, Proverbial Smile, Research, Right Opportunity, Say, Secret, Share, Shoot, Shooting Beyond the Obvious, Show, Simple, Start, Sublime, Surprise, Unique, Visually Loaded, Web, What Isn't There, What To Say, Worthy, You Should Have Been Here Yesterday, Your Best
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Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy. It Is To Be Useful, To Be Honorable, To Be Compassionate, To Have It Make Some Difference That You Have Lived and Lived Well
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
