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First Principles: To Model Our Political System Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility, Is To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of the Human Character
“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
First Principles: Music Gives A Soul To the Universe, Wings To the Mind, Flight To the Imagination and Life To Everything
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato
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Thought For the Day: Where Words Fail, Music Speaks
“Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen
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First Principles: Our First Object Should Therefore Be, To Leave Open To Him All the Avenues To Truth. The Most Effectual…Is the Freedom of the Press
“Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual …is the freedom of the press.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Learning Is Acquired By Reading Books; But the Much More Necessary Learning, the Knowledge of the World, Is Only Acquired By Reading Man
“Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.” – Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Sacred Rights of Mankind Are Not To Be Rummaged For Among Old Parchments, Or Musty Records. They Are Written…In the Whole Volume of Human Nature, By the Hand of the Divinity Itself
“To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free … Continue reading
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Of All Things Valued
Of All Things Valuedby Michael DoyleLike pieces arranged on the chessboardThe Man from La Mancha bears his swordPrince or pawnbroker, there is trade for madnessBut only the type that perpetually leads to sadnessThe battle with evil and giants cannot compareWith … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Last Stage But One of Every Civilization, Is Characterized By the Forced Political Unification of Its Constituent Parts, Into A Single Greater Whole
“The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.” – Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975)
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Thought of the Day: It Used To Be the Boast of Free Men That, So Long As They Kept Within the Bounds of the Known Law, There Was No Need To Ask Anybody’s Permission Or To Obey Anybody’s Orders
“It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Most Valuable Possession You Can Own is An Open Heart. The Most Powerful Weapon You Can Be Is An Instrument of Peace
“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.” – Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947)
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