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First Principles: Practice Virtue In Yourself and Encourage It In Others
“Righteousness alone can exalt [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others… [T]he great pillars of all government and of social life: I mean virtue, morality, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Encourage, Exalt, First Principles, Nation, Others, Patrick Henry, Practice, Righteousness, Self, Sphere, Virtue
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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!!
Our northern neighbors in Canada celebrate a day of thankful gratitude for harvest and other valued parts of society on this day! This day was fixed to the second Monday in October by the following proclamation: “A Day of General … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Whole Heart Solution
Three times the number of people in the US and Canada are dying from heart disease than any form of cancer. That’s a sad fact. Personally sadder for me is that I am facing down this beast at the moment. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative, Approach, Blend, Book, Canada, Cancer, Control, Encourage, Health, Heart, Heart Disease, Help, Joel K Kahn MD, Malady, Medicine, Solution, The Whole Heart Solution, Thought For the Day, Traditional, United States, Whole
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First Principles: Laws That Forbid the Carrying of Arms Disarm Only Those Who Are Neither Inclined Nor Determined To Commit Crimes
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Assailant, Assault, Attack, Carry, Confideence, Crime, Disarm, Encourage, First Principles, Homocide, Law, Prevent, Thomas Jefferson, Unarmed
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First Principle: Laws That Forbid Bearing of Arms Serve To Encourage Not Prevent Homicides
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms… serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Cesare Beccaria
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Tagged Armed Man, Arms, Attack, Carry, Cesare Beccaria, Confidence, Encourage, First Principles, Forbid, Homicides, Law, Prevent, Unarmed
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Hope In Love Becomes A Battlefield
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 22 challenges us to write a poem engaging another art form. For me, it took but a moment to realize I would take on Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture. Many reasons behind this I suppose, but, the largest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymity, Art, Aspiration, Attic, Battlefield, Category, Daddy, Danger, Design, Didone, Divorce, Dream, Dumpster Dive, Encourage, Family Man, Feeling, Happy, Hearts, Homeless, Hope, Little Girls, Live, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Paint by Number, Pattern, Photograph, Plead, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Princess, Reason, Robert Indiana, Scattegory, Sculpture, Season, Sing, Soul, Spring, Strong, Success
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A Prayer For the Healing
No use whining about life’s complications really, right? So let me just encourage everyone to love when they can and cry when you feel it’s needed. Keep your hearts open and find that bit of truth that works to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Angst, Band-Aid, Believe, Capacity, Complicate, Confluence, Construct, Control, Cry, Dark Night, Desist, Destruction, Devotion, Diet, Emotion, Encourage, Epidemic, Fear, Feeling Good, Frustrate, God's Eyes, Harm, Heal, Hurt, Influence, Intelligence, Joke, Know, Love, Made, More, Mother's Kiss, Ocean, Pain, Past, Photograph, Piece, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Precious, Reveal, Shore, Surrender, Tender, Thoughts, Tortured Soul, Tough, True Strength, Trust, Truth, Western, World
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The Last Days of Death
Regard well the moments of your life and never disregard a chance given to tell someone you care about or who needs an encouraging word those things that you might say to make their world better. You never know when … Continue reading
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Tagged Biology, Breath, Buy, Capable, Constraint, Day, Death, Disease, Dream, Ease, Encourage, Equality, Escape, Expiration Date, Fight, Frailty, Good fight, Google, Grim Reaper, Hand, Immortality, Iron Clad, Life, Mantra, Mortality, Nap, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Realign, Rush, Science, Sensible, Tap, Technicality, Time, Truth, Value, View, World, Young
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