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Category Archives: Thought For the Day
Thought For the Day: Always Seek For Truth Or Lose Your Ability To Love
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself … Continue reading
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Tagged Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lies, Love, Respect, Self Deception, The Brothers Karamazov, Truth
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Selected Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier passed away on September 17, 1892. But before he did he left quite a legacy behind for future generations to learn from and treasure. “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are … Continue reading
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Tagged Fireside Poets, Harvard Classics, John Greenleaf Whittier, Poetry, Quaker, Snowbound
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Thought For the Day: It Is Only From Capitalism That Mankind Has Risen From Feudalistic Society
“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.” – Ludwig von Mises, in Planning for Freedom and Sixteen Other Essays And Addresses … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Holinshed’s Chronicles
We have previously taken a broad overview of the work called Holinshed’s Chronicles. Today we will take a further look at this with respect to William Harrison’s input and with particular emphasis on Elizabethan punishments. William Harrison was chaplain to Lord … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: We Need A Moral Reawakening Against Legalized Theft
“We cannot blame politicians for the spending that places our nation in peril. Politicians are doing precisely what the American people elect them to office to do — namely, use the power of their office to take the rightful property … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Legalized Theft, Morality, Reawakening, Reform, Taxation, Theft, Thought For the Day, Walter Williams
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In Remembrance of POW/MIA Day 2017
Some gave all so that we might have our freedom. Others, have sat in POW camps.. if they were able to sit. Some … we may never know what happened to them… May we keep them all in our thoughts … Continue reading
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Tagged Freedom, KIA, Killed In Action, MIA, Military, Missing In Action, POW, POW/MIA Day, Prisoners of War, Remembrance
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Washington’s Farewell Address – George Washington
There are contradictory reports of when George Washington’s Farewell Address was first published. I will stick with the date being September 15, 1796 until I can confirm otherwise. This is the date I have read previously. The second date I … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Farewell Address, George Washington, Harvard Classics, History, Unity
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Thought For the Day: No Matter Where We Begin Our Destination Is Up To Us
“The path to paradise begins in hell.” – Dante Alighieri How is that for a bright and cheerful message? Reality? It is. Why? Because you see hell is separation from God. From there it is our choices. We can either … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegory, Dante, Hell, Paradise, The Divine Comedy, Thought For the Day
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Divine Comedy – Dante
The Divine Comedy was begun by The Supreme Poet, Dante Alighieri in 1308 and completed in 1320. It is one of the greatest works in world literature and considered the preeminent piece of Italian literature. Written in the Tuscan language and divided … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegory, Aquinas, Christian, Dante, Epic, Harvard Classics, Italain, Poem, Poetry, Summa Theologica, The Divine Comedy
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Thought For the Day: Experts On the Public Good Are Often Wrong and Sometimes Dangerous
“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrators, Bureaucrats, Danger, Experience, Friedrich Hayek, Liberty, Modern Government, Public Good, Risk, Understanding
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