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First Principles: Inclinations and Passions Must Yield to Evidentiary Facts
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Dictate, Evidence, Facts, First Prinicples, Inclination, John Adams, Passions, Stubborn, Wishes
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Evidence, Facts, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Passions, Stubborn Things, Wishes
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The Truth Be Told
Truth is maybe the most valuable commodity. Perhaps I’m dwelling on this concept too much lately? I think not. The Truth Be Told by Michael Romani In all the things that life has showed There is one truth that must … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Belong, Brink, Brooding Mood, Chance, Facts, Hope, Life, Linger, Lost Cause, Man, Pause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Questions, Reconcile, Right and Wrong, Struggle, Task, Told, Truth, Wonder, World
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First Principles: Know the Difference Between Opinions and Facts
“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” — James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Contagious, Facts, First Principles, Gossip, James Madison, Opinionated, Opinions
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” —John Adams (1770) in ‘Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Learning People Is As Important As Learning From Books
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
First Principles: When Media Lies It Becomes Impotent
“But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1805) Increasingly, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Facts, Falsehood, First Principles, Free Press, Impotentcy, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Wisdom Frames Knowledge Into Being Useful
“Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.” – Northrop Frye, in Fearful Symmetry: … Continue reading
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Tagged Assimilation, Contact, Facts, In Fearful Symmetry, Knowledge, Material, Meaning, Northrop Frye, Position, William Blake, Wisdom
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770); from ‘Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the … Continue reading
