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First Principles: History Shows That of All Governments, Democracy Is the Most Unstable, Fluctuating and Short-Lived
“The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.” – John Quincy Adams
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Tagged Ages, Democracy, Experience, First Principles, Fluctuating, Government, Human, John Quincy Adams, Short Lived, Shown, Unstable
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Thought For the Day: The Mysterious Is the Source of All True Art and Science
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Art, Beautiful, Experience, Mysterious, Science, Source, Thought For the Day, True
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First Principles: Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have Perverted It To Tyranny
“Experience hath shewn, That Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have, In Time, and By Slow Operations, Perverted It To Tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson Still think Obama understood the Constitutional law he lectured on? … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Forms, Entrust, Experience, First Principles, Government, Pervert, Power, Shown, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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First Principles: History and Experience Prove That Foreign Influence Is One of the Most Baneful Foes of Republican Government
“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful … Continue reading
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Tagged Awake, Citizens, Experience, First Principles, Foe, Foreign Influence, Free People, George Washington, History, Republican Government, Wiles
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Thought For the Day: Experience Teaches Us the Huge Gap Between Piety and Goodness
“Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.” -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662)
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Tagged Blaise Pascal, Difference, Enormous, Experience, Goodness, Piety, See, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Depending On the Favor of Another Nation Is Illusory
“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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Tagged Calculate, Cure, Discard, Error, Expect, Experience, Favor, First Principles, George Washington, Illusion, Nation To Nation
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Cultivating Kindness III
The Lord shows His kindness is His Yes, His No and His Wait. All things that happen, happen with purpose. It’s important in our growing to consider this perspective no matter how personally unsettling things get or are. Cultivating Kindness … Continue reading
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Tagged Atmosphere, Clear, Community, Compassion, Compromise, Cross, Cultivate, Darkness, Discipline, Effort, Experience, Family, Fear, Find, Forgive, Genuine, Gift, God, Integrity, Kind, Kindness, Lesson, Lord, Love, Obedience, One, Path, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Promise, Reflect, Repent, Seek, Sense, Sin, Smile, Sublime, Truth, Walk Back, Warning
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The Angst of Generation Z
Our children live in interesting times. It’s a blessing and a curse. As a father, I think it’s my duty to try to teach my daughters to look for the positive and the good and to seek solutions instead of … Continue reading
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Tagged Angst, Broken, Complexity, Experience, Future, Generation X, Generation Z, Interesting Times, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sanity, Scandal, Specter, Superficial, System
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Thought For the Day: A Writer Writes From Empathy More Than Experience
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” – Nikki Giovanni
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Tagged Admit, Empathy, Experience, Hesitate, Nikki Giovanni, One Book, Poems, Thought For the Day, Write, Writers
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Nostalgia For Guantanamo
Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading
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