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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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A Prairie Sky’s Truth
Sometimes seeing things differently is mental illness; sometimes it’s seeing things differently. A show I was watching at the suggestion of a person who is increasingly important to me portrayed that in an interesting bit that I have attempted to … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Anticipation, Behind, Blind, Blue, Cancer, Candle, Delusion, Different, Disappear, Disturb, Dream, Drown, Expectation, Eyes, Find, Free, Grow, Help, Home, Hope, Illusion, Kid, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Long, Lost, Love, Mediate, Medicate, Melody, Mental Illness, Mind, Night, Numb, Pain, Passing Year, Person, Perspective, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Prairie Sky, Pray, Question, Return, Reverent, Say, Science, Sense, Signs, Silent Scream, Sleep, Society, Strong, Think, Treat, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Words, You and I
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Echo Chambers of Disbelief
Beware the monsters under our beds.. but worse still are the monsters just behind the veneer we casually wear…. Echo Chambers of Disbelief by Michael Romani In a thousand seedy places There are monsters behind faces Playing cleverly as saying … Continue reading
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Tagged After, Cancer, Chamber, Chase, Choke, Clever, Commotion, Dancer, Death, Depth, Disaster, Disbelief, Dream, Dreamer, Echo, Emotion, Facade, Face, Friend, Grace, Grief, Illusion, Irony, Know, Life Dream, Monster, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Seedy Place, Shallow, Stillborn
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Secular Ideal
To hear the communists and socialists tell it the 20th Century must have been the advent of civilization as they and the secularists strove to drive God out of the public square and it was sheer coincidence that it was … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Believers, Chord, Deaf, Deceivers, Dogma, Doom, Doubt, Gloom, God Is Dead, Godless, History, Human Being, Ideal, Ignorance, Illusion, Lovers of Truth, Mankind, Meaning, Misery, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Risk, Rule, Santification, Secular, Self Deception, Self-Inflicted, Unintentional, Victims, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Fascism Is What Comes After Communism Is Proved An Illusion
“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.” – FA Hayak
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Tagged Communism, FA Hayak, Fascism, Illusion, Stage, Thought For the Day
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Extra Little Something
Isn’t it funny how it’s usually the little things that make up our memories and bring up to the magic that is truly in Christmas? Extra Little Something by Michael Romani It’s there in all the things we take up … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Best, Christmas, Christmas Day, Clear, Communication, Conceive, Confusion, Contribution, Courage, Dream, Embrace, Excitement, Extra, Eyes, Fantasy, Forgive, God, Hard Times, Heart, Illusion, Imposture, Incitement, Lies, Love, Make Believe, Make Up, Memory, Nothing, Okay, One Another, Photograph, Plumb, Poem, Poetry, Reality, Sarcrifice, Secret, Shallow, Snare, Take Up, Test, Things, Truth, Truth Seeker
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First Principles: There Is No Graver Error Than To Rest Our Nation On Favors From Other Nations
“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favors from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 … Continue reading
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Tagged Calculation, Cure, Discard, Error, Expectation, Experience, Favor, First Principles, Foreign Nations, George Washington, Illusion, Pride
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