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Thought For the Day: The Pursuit of Truth and Beauty Is A Sphere of Activity In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)

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First Principles: The Legislative Department Is Everywhere Extending the Sphere of Its Activity and Drawing All Power Into Its Impetuous Vortex

“The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” – James Madison (1788)

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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading

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First Principles: To Cherish and Stimulate the Activity of the Human Mind, By Multiplying the Objects of Enterprise, Is Not Among the Least Considerable of the Expedients

“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.” -Alexander Hamilton (1791)

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First Principles: To Cherish and Stimulate the Activity of the Human Mind…Is Not Among the Least Considerable of the Expedients, By Which the Wealth of A Nation May Be Promoted

“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.” -Alexander Hamilton (1791)

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First Principles: To Cherish and Stimulate the…Human Mind…Is Not Among the Least Considerable of the Expedients, By Which the Wealth of A Nation May Be Promoted

“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.” – Alexander Hamilton (1791)

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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…and Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage…and Virtue

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Legislative Department Is Everywhere Extending the Sphere of Its Activity and Drawing All Power Into Its Impetuous Vortex

“The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” – James Madison (1788)

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Thought For the Day: There Is No Development Without Effort and Effort Means Work

”All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.“ – Calvin Coolidge    

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First Principles: To Cherish and Stimulate the Activity of the Human Mind Is Not the Least Expedient By Which the Wealth of A Nation Is Promoted

“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.” – Alexander Hamilton (1791)   … Continue reading

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