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Thought For the Day: The Most Reliable Way To Predict the Future Is To Create It

“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln      

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First Principles: America’s Should Always Be An Attitude of Thankfulness For All of the Blessings God Has Granted

“I do recommend and assign [this Thanksgiving Day] to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: No Person Has Memory Enough To Be A Successful Liar

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” – Abraham Lincoln How quickly this is forgotten by persons in power seeking to ruin an honest man….    

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Thought For the Day: Tact Is Describing People As They See Themselves

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”  – Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US (1809-1865)                

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Thought For the Day: Writing Is the Great Invention of the World

“Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye—is the great invention of the world…—great, very great in enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and of space.” … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Right to Property Is A Positive In the World

“Property is the fruit of labor-property is desirable – it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not who … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Prayer Is the Final and Best Answer

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.” – Abraham Lincoln Many is the time … Continue reading

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