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First Principles: No Mound of Parchment Can Be So Formed As To Stand Against the Sweeping Torrent of Boundless Ambition
“No mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.” – George Washington (1789)
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Tagged Ambition, Boundless, Corrupt, Current, First Principles, Form, George Washington, Morals, Mound, One Side, Parchment, Sap, Stand, Torrent
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First Principles: There Is No Maxim…Which Is More Liable To Be Misapplied,…Than…That the Interest of the Majority Is the Political Standard of Right and Wrong
“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.” – James Madison … Continue reading
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Tagged Current, Elucidation, First Princicples, Interest, James Madison, Liable, Majority, Maxim, Misapplied, Opinion, Political Standard, Right and Wrong
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Big Sur
Big Surby Michael DoyleThinking back under Indiana’s rainMemories of a life spent in refrainWhere too much was never quite enoughAnd jokers begged a thief to call his bluffI remember back to when weeks were doneWe’d pack the car to drive … Continue reading
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Tagged Away, Beach, Believe, Big Sur, Bixby Bridge, Bluff, California, Chapparal, Closed, Conceive, Condor, Current, Days, Driving, Earth, Enought, Footpaths, Freedom, Glide, Greenery, Happy Songs, Heaven, Highway One, Home, Indiana Rain, Jade Cove, Joy, Leave, Ledge, Life Spent, Life's Answers, McWay Falls, Mirth, Nature's Child, Oak, Poetry and Poems, Push and Pull, Reach, Redwood, Refrain, Scenery, Secrets, Smile, Soar, Soft Rain, Sunshine, Tear, Tide, Times, Topple, Trails, Unveiled, Ventana, Week, Wild, World's Edge
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Thought For the Day: Those Calling for the Silencing of People With Whom They Disagree Politically – What the Democrats Are Currently Doing – Will Only Work To Stoke the Fires of Division and Hatred
“Those calling for the silencing of people with whom they disagree politically — what the Democrats are currently doing — will only work to stoke the fires of division and hatred. Genuine unity requires offering genuine respect and acceptance of … Continue reading
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Tagged Calling, Current, Democrats, Disagee, Division, Fires, Hatred, People, Politics, Silencing, Stoke, Thomas Gallatin, Thought For the Day, Work
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First Principles: That Is No Maxim…More Liable To Be Misapplied… Than… That…the Interest of the Majority Is the Political Standard of Right and Wrong
“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.” – James Madison … Continue reading
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Tagged Current, Elucidation, First Principles, Interest, James Madison, Liable, Majority, Misapplied, No Maxim, Opinion, Political Standard, Right and Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The Same People Who Said Trump Would Destroy America Are Currently Burning America To the Ground
“The same people who said Trump would destroy America are currently burning America to the ground.” – Ryan Fournier It is increasingly looking like we’re about to have a major blow out as each side ramps up and the … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Burning, Current, Destroy America, Ground, Ryan Fournier, Said, Same People, Thought For the Day, Trump
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Thought For the Day: Music Can Make Us Feel Invulnerable and Related to All of Time
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged Current, Danger, Early, Fear, Foe, Hear, Henry David Thoreau, Invulnerable, Music, Relate, See, Thought For the Day, Times
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A Vancouverite Current
The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Static
Two surfaces contact then separate Like two hearts when feeling desperate One in its high resistance The other in its insistence Long in memory of the flow of the wire When both had the same current desire Lost in an … Continue reading
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Tagged Connection, Current, Daily Prompt, Desire, Desperation, Electric, Insistence, Resistance, Static, Surface, Wordpress
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