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First Principles: Tact Is the Art of Making A Point Without Making An Enemy
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” – Isaac Newton
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Spoons Full of Memories
A good man was laid to rest today, as good a man as men are these days. I offer this attempt of a poem to honor his memory in a final salute of sorts. Master Sargent Charles Oliver Brooks, boss, … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: War With Your Vices, Make Peace With Your Neighbors and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Person
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
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First Principles: Stick Up For What You Believe In, But, Readily Admit When You Are Wrong
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.” – Andrew Jackson
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Tagged Acknowledge, Andrew Jackson, Believe, Better Man, Error, First Principles, Instant, Man, Reservation, Right, Stick Up, Worth
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Bond of Carbon
There in the center of all life is that bit of stardust that we know as carbon. From it all that is considered organic is formed. Bond of Carbon by Michael Romani Carbon ash returns to source By cremation turns … Continue reading
First Principles: Our Motives To Act In Life Should Be the Relief of the Distressed; the Detection of Frauds; the Defeat of Oppression; and the Diffusion of Happiness
“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Defeat, Detect, Disfuse, Distressed, First Principles, Fraud, Happiness, Life, Motive, Nathanael Greene, Oppression, Relief
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Thought For the Day: I’d Rather See A Sermon Than To Hear One Any Day
“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.” – Edgar Guest, poet (20 Aug 1881-1959)
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Like Brothers
The things done in the military grows most men’s units in whatever force into something like family. Most of us ended fighting for our brothers and sisters more than ideals or nations. Some of us carry the memories of our … Continue reading
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Tagged Back, Battles, Beer, Brothers, Caution, Count On, Crime, Danger, Day, Distance, Do It, Done, Doubt, Fallen, Family, Fight, Forever Faithful, Friend, Giving up, God, Head, Joke, Laugh, Live, Longer, Memory, Miles, Military, Mother, Movie, My Time, Need, Nothing to Say, Odds, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Push Past, Race, Remember, Resistance, Ring, Semper Fi, Sigh, Sisters, Smile, Sonds, Stronger, Tears, Toss, Twin, Weight, Years
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Thought For the Day: If You Live To Be A Hundred, I Want To Live To Be A Hundred Minus One Day
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
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Tagged A.A. Milne, Hundred, Hundred Minus One, I, If, Live, Never, Thought For the Day, You
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First Principles: When the Government Violates the People’s Rights, Insurrection Is the Most Sacred of Rights and Most Indispensable of Duties
“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.” – Marquis de Lafayette
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