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Thought For the Day: The Strongest Motivation Is What Is In Our Hearts
“We discuss motives, but isn’t it always the same motive? ‘I have murder in my heart.’ Why do so many Americans have murder in their hearts? … We have been swept by social, technological and cultural revolution. The family blew … Continue reading
First Principles: Gun Control Laws Only Disarm The Law Abiding
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” – Cesare Beccaria This from the quill of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment Period. Very little changes … Continue reading
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Tagged Cesare Beccaria, Criminal, Disarming, First Principles, Law, Law Abiding, Right to Bear Arms
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Premonition
I had a premonition that things would not be going well It was not so much that anyone had all that much to tell After all dead men don’t talk much being as they’re dead But with a single look … Continue reading
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Tagged Angels Fear To Tread, Battle, Black, Courage, Daily Prompt, Dead Men, Death, Fear, Fight, Premonition, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: Winners Are People Who Never Quit
“Winners are not people who Never Fail …But people who Never Quit.” – Tom Browning
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Tagged Fail, People, Preserverance, Quit, Thought For the Day, Tom Browning, Winners
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First Principles: What Is Inside A Person Matters More Than Appearance
“Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds.” – George Washington (1783) The worth of any person comes from what is inside not outward appearance. I cannot count the number of … Continue reading
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Tagged Appearance, Character, Conception, First Principles, George Washington, Substance, Vanity
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Hacksaw Objector
Hacksaw Objector by Michael Romani The maliciousness of man to his fellow man Fighting wars with bullets and hand to hand Made a God fearing hero out of Desmond Doss As he valiantly protected others from their loss A conscientious … Continue reading
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Tagged Conscientious Objector, Desmond Doss, Duty, Escarpment, Hacksaw Ridge, Hero, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, War
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Imagination
On the well washed shores of my imagination I find images feeling like technicolor saturation Always, since my early days of playing Robin Hood To today, taking photos and writing, I’ve understood That it’s in the structures of depths of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible Study Tools, Daily Prompt, Discovery, Explore, Imagination, Mental, Photography, Playground, Saturation, Shores, Tools, Uncharted, Understood, Wordpress, Writing
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First Principles: A Nation Should Strive For Wisdom and Virtue In Its Example
“Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 36, 1788
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Example, First Principles, Happiness, Honor, Human Nature, The Federalist Papers, Virtue, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Love Shows Itself In Timidity and Boldness
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.” – Victor Hugo, poet, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
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Tagged Boldness, Girl, Love, Symptom, Thought For the Day, Timidity, Victor Hugo, Young Man
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Daniel Defoe – The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
Born on September 13, 1660, the English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy Daniel Defoe fka as Daniel Foe became famous popularizing the writing form known as a novel with his works including Robinson Crusoe prior to his passing on … Continue reading
