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First Principles: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again

Posted on November 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Don’t Expect To Build Up the Weak By Pulling Down the Strong

Posted on August 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” – Calvin Coolidge

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Thought For the Day: Those Who Expect To Reap the Blessings of Freedom Must, Like Men, Undergo the Fatigue of Supporting It

Posted on July 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine

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First Principles: It Is Not From the Benevolence of the Butcher, the Brewer, Or the Baker That We Expect Our Dinner, But From Their Regard To Their Own Interest

Posted on June 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” – Adam Smith

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First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect, Or Calculate Upon Real Favours From Nation to Nation. ‘Tis An Illusion Which Experience Must Cure

Posted on June 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ’Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington (1796)

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First Principles: Reason and Experience Both Forbid Us To Expect That National Morality Can Prevail In Exclusion of Religious Principle

Posted on October 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” – George Washington, in his Farewell Address

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Thought For the Day: When Love and Skill Work Together, Expect A Masterpiece

Posted on February 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900)

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First Principles: Nothing Is of More Importance For the Public Weal, Than To Form and Train Up Youth In Wisdom and Virtue

Posted on January 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“(N)othing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue…. I think also, general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect or Calculate Upon Real Favors From Nation to Nation

Posted on December 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.“ – George Washington (1796)

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Something About Respect

Posted on November 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Something About Respectby Michael DoyleIt was a different lifeA different sceneLife was toughAnd the streets were meanLife was about respectAsking for the something better to be hadWas maybe a bit too much to expectBut the beauty seen could make him … Continue reading →

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