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Tag Archives: Ambition
First Principles: History By Apprising Citizens of the Past Will Enable Them To Judge of the Future; It Will Avail Them of the Experience of Other Times and Other Nations
“History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of … Continue reading
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Tagged Actions and Designs, Ambition, Apprise, Citizens, Disguise, Experience, First Principles, Future, History, Judge, Other Nations, Other Tiimes, Past, Thomas Jefferson, Views
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Scaling the New Heights of the Dawn Wall
(Scaling the New Heights of the) Dawn Wallby Michael DoyleIn the dawn of winterWe scaled the face of the wallLearning to never pause in winterWe rose above Yosemite’s fallCapturing the dreams of our own storyFinding the way through until the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Achievement, Ambition, Baby Steps, Burning, Capability, Chance, Climb, Dawn Wall, Dead, Deliverance, Depressurized, Destination, Destiny, Doubt, Dreams, Extent, Fail, Fake, Fall, Flow State, Fortitude, Glory, Hardships, Heads, Learning, Moments, Mutuality, New Heights, Patches, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rationality, Reason, Right Attitude, Right Intent, Scale, Season, Second Rate, Shaken, Silence, Story, Stride, Successes, Taken, Tectonic Shift, Thoughts, Transformation, Winter, Wonder, Yosemite
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First Principles: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading
First Principles: Energy In the Executive Is…Essential to the Protection of the Community Against Foreign Attacks
“Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Ambition, Anarchy, Assaults, Community, Definition, Energy, Enterprises, Essential, Executive, Faction, First Principles, Foreign Attacks, Good Government, High-Handed Combinations, Interrupt, Irregular, Justice, Laws, Leading Character, Ordinary Course, Protection, Protection of Property, Security of Liberty, Stead Administration
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First Principles: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuses of Government, Ambition, Constitutional, Control, Counteract, Devices, First Principles, Human Nature, Interest, James Madison, Mankind, Reflection
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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality, Suffocates the Germ of Virtue, and Prepare Fit Tools For the Designs of Ambition
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, Query 19, 1781
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Tagged Ambition, Dependence, Designs, First Principles, Fit Tools, Germ of Virtue, Notes On Virginia, Prepare, Subservience, Suffocate, Thomas Jeferrson, Venality
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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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Tagged Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, Excel, Faculty, First Principles, Industry, Inhumanity, John Adams, Minds, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: My Ambition Is to Live To See All of Physics Reduced To A Formula So Elegant and Simple That It Will Fit Easily On the Front of A Tee-Shirt
“My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.” -Leon Max Lederman, physicist, Nobel laureate (15 Jul 1922-2018)
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Tagged Ambition, Elegant, Fit Easily, Front, Leon M. Lederman, Live, Physics, See, Simpl, T-Shirt, Thought For the Day
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