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Thought For the Day: True Leadership Is Serving God and Not Looking For the Glory That Might Come From It. You Don’t Do It For the Glory Or Personal Benefit but For God’s Glory
“True leadership is serving God and not looking for the glory that might come from it. You don’t do it for the glory or personal benefit but for God’s glory. You don’t take credit for anything that is done, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Credit, Done, Glory, God, God's Glory, Personal Benefit, Praise, Thought For Today, Through You, True Leadership, Vonette Bright
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First Principles: The Credit Belongs To the Man Who Is Actually In the Arena, Whose Face Is Marred By Dust and Sweat and Blood…Who At Worst, If He Fails, At Least Fails While Daring Greatly
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Credit, Critic, Daring Greatly, Fails, First Principles, High Achievement, In the Arena, Strive, Theodore Roosevelt, Triumph, Worst
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Ways of Life Previously Chosen
Ways of Life Previously Chosenby Michael DoyleEating smoked salmon and in contemplationAbout what will be the fate of my nationI will let no untruths be varnished or toldBut insist on telling how history did unfoldI have watched the destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Through 15th Amendments, 1860s, 1960s, 40 Acres and A Mule, ACA, Actual History, America, America's Legacy, American Power, American Soul, Aspiration, Assimilation, Bells and Lights, Bill of Goods, Bill of Rights, Black, Blight, Blood and Tears, Brooks, Bureaucracy, Calhoun, Choose, Chosen, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Common Man, Complicit, Contemplation, Credit, Creed, Crockett, Cross Road, Cruelty, Darker Brothers, Deep State, Deliberate Illusion, Delivered, Democratic Republcian, Democratic Standard, Destruction, DNC, Doubling Debt, Douglas, Dredging Up the Truth, Dysfunction, Economical, Election Day, Election Year, End Slavery, Ensure, Equal Opportunity, Equal Rights, Equality, Equity, Equivalency, Extorionate, Fable, Fact, Fair Life, False Flag, Fate, Filibustered, Focus, Freedom, Frelinghuysen, Fringe, Gang, Greenlight, History, Inconvenient, Indian Removal Act, Instill Fear, Islamic Militancy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kleptocracy, Knee, Lands, Lash, Legacy, Liberty, Lies of Equity, Lincoln, Love For the People, Merit, Military, Modern Democrats, Modern History, Nation, Native American, North and South, Not So Distant Past, Obama, Open Opportunity, Opposing Listeners, Pathway, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Price Paid, Priority, Profit, Promises, Racism, Real Fight, Real History, Recalled, Republican, Restore, Right To Vote, Rule of Law, Sexual Plunder, Shackled, Shivered, Slavery, Sleight of Hand, Smoked Salmon, Social Justice, Stand Up In the Front, Steeple, Stumble, Suffragettes, Supreme Court, Sword, Tainted Legacy, Taught, The Hermitage, Theft, Tocquieveille, Told, Trading Lives, Trail of Tears, Understood, Unfold, Untruth, Varnish, Vehement, Votes Are Cast, War, Ways of Life, Whip, White, White House, Women, Worth
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Aim, Art of Government, Counselor, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Great Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Require, Right and Wrong, Self, Think
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists In the Art of Being Honest. Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)
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Tagged A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Aim, Art, Consist, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Government, Honest, Mankind, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Art of Government, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Right and Wrong, Think and Act, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists In the Art of Being Honest. Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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Tagged 1774, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Aim, Consists, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Government, Honest, Mankind, Whole Art
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Thought For the Day: There Are Two Kinds of People: Those Who Work and Those Who Take the Credit…Try To Be In the First Group; There Was Less Competition
“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.” – Indira Gandhi … Continue reading
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Tagged Credit, First Group, Grandfather, Indira Ghandi, Less Competition, People, Thought For the Day, Two Kinds, Work
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First Principles: Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
First Principles: Do Not Conceive That Fine Clothes Make Fine Men, Any More Than Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds
“Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds.” —George Washington (1783)
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Tagged Admired, Conceive, Credit, Dress, Eyes, Fine Birds, Fine Clothes, Fine Feathers, Fine Men, First Principles, Genteel, George Washington, Judicious, Plain, Sensible
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