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Thought For the Day: Let Us Be Grateful To People Who Make Us Happy and Make Our Souls Blossom
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
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Tagged Blossom, Charming Gardeners, Grateful, Happy, Make, Marcel Proust, People, Soul, Thought For the Day, Us
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Faceless Portraits Transcending Time
As remarkable as it may seem, AI, that is to say, Artificial Intelligence is not only being ‘taught’ to do art but some of the pieces already done to date are fetching upwards of $450,000.00 for portraits that an art … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, AI, Algorithm, Anonymous Bid, Anthromorphize, Art, Bluster, Console, Contemporary, Contortion, Creation, Deceive, Deduced Pattern, Distinction, Distraction, Faceless, Heart, Heartless, High Bid, Legacy, Masquerade, Meaning, Mechanistic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Portraits, Reveal, Sample, Soul, Spotlight, Story, Tantalize, Time, Trend, Visual Art
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First Principles: The End of Law Is To Preserve and Enlarge Freedom
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.” – John Locke
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Tagged Abolish, End of Law, Enlarge, First Principles, Freedom, Goal, John Locke, Preserve, Restrain
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Thought For the Day: What One Can Be, One Must Be
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” – Abraham Maslow, psychologist (1 Apr 1908-1970)
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Tagged Abraham Maslow, Artist, Music, Musician, One Can Be, One Must Be, Paint, Peace, Poet, Self, Self Actualization, Thought For the Day, Write
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Each In Our Part
Started attending a new church today. It’s related to a church I enjoyed very much in California. Today, they had two of the children work together to recite Romans 12:6. That was a pretty awesome verse to commit to memory. … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Act, Body, Church, Communion, Contribute, Day, Death, Embrace, Face, Faces, Forgiven, Friend, Glorify, God, Grace, Heaven, Holy, Human Race, Jesus, Memory Verse, Part, Perfected Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Remind, Response, Romans 12:6, Sacrifice, Sanctify, Savior, Signifigance, Sin, Suffice, Together
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First Principles: Those Who Think Themselves Unaccountable Will Act Unaccountable and All Persons Would Be Unaccountable If They Could
“It is nothing strange, that men, who think themselves unaccountable, should act unaccountably, and that all men would be unaccountable if they could.” – John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letters
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Tagged Act, All, Cato's Letters, Could, First Principles, John Trenchard, Men, Strange, Think, Thomas Gordon, Unaccountable
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Thought For the Day: Dare To Read, Think and Do Something Different Than Others Around You
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Morley, Do, Every Day, Mind, No One Else, Read, Silly, Think, Thought For the Day, Unanimity
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Adulting Conversation
Today’s world is perceived as fraught with danger. Linguists have determined that the more risk we believe society is in, the more we increasingly decline in adulting and the more we use words like “adulting”… Adulting Conversation by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Adult, Adulting, Change, Communication, Construction, Conversation, Danger, Deal, Fascination, Fix, Future, Hope, Insult, Introduction, Keep It Real, Language, Linguist, Live and Learn, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Risk, Rope, Talk, Tic, Turn, Verbal Punch, Words
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Thought For the Day: Bad Weather Looks Worse Through A Window
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” – Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928)
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First Principles: Civil Liberty Understood Consists In Protecting Individual Rights Through Society’s Constraints and Force
“Civil liberty, rightly understood, consists in protecting the rights of individuals by the united force of society: society cannot be maintained, and of course can exert no protection, without obedience to some sovereign power; and obedience is an empty name, … Continue reading →