Tag Archives: Experience

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Neighbor

Posted on November 3, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Rumors have it that to have good neighbors, depends on good fences I believe these rumors to be at the very best really bad pretenses To the best of my recollection of the life I’ve lived in experience Is that … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Learning People Is As Important As Learning From Books

Posted on September 23, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.  – Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Experts On the Public Good Are Often Wrong and Sometimes Dangerous

Posted on September 14, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Our Lives Are the Clay From Which We Create

Posted on August 24, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Discerning Truth Requires Experience

Posted on July 25, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”  –  John Stuart Mill Without experience it is difficult to discern full truth.  If you sit a moment and think on … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Don’t Cry; Smile

Posted on July 20, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss In the last decade of knowing and loving my two little girls, I have been deeply reminded of something I had long ago forgotten.  Some of the best … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Seeming Misfortunes Are Often Blessings In Disguise

Posted on July 8, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.”  – George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights

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