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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit and Intelligence of the Citizens
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Banish, Betray, Citizens, Created, Dare, Fail, First Principles, Flatter, Honest, Intelligence, Justice Joseph Story, Order, Profligate, Public Council, Public Spirit, Republics, Reward, The People, Virtue, Wise
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Thought For the Day: Love Is the Soul of Genius
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Tagged Degree, Genius, Imagination, Intelligence, Lofty, Love, Make, Soul, Thought For the Day, Together, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit and Intelligence of the Citizens
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Banish, Betray, Citizens, Create, Dare, Fall, First Principles, Flatter, Honest, Intelligence, Joseph Story, Profligate, Public Councils, Public Spirit, Republic, Reward, The People, Virtue, Wise
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A Prayer For the Healing
No use whining about life’s complications really, right? So let me just encourage everyone to love when they can and cry when you feel it’s needed. Keep your hearts open and find that bit of truth that works to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Angst, Band-Aid, Believe, Capacity, Complicate, Confluence, Construct, Control, Cry, Dark Night, Desist, Destruction, Devotion, Diet, Emotion, Encourage, Epidemic, Fear, Feeling Good, Frustrate, God's Eyes, Harm, Heal, Hurt, Influence, Intelligence, Joke, Know, Love, Made, More, Mother's Kiss, Ocean, Pain, Past, Photograph, Piece, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Precious, Reveal, Shore, Surrender, Tender, Thoughts, Tortured Soul, Tough, True Strength, Trust, Truth, Western, World
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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit and Intelligence of Their Citizens
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Betray, Create, Fall, First Principles, Flatter, Honest, Intelligence, Joseph Story, Profligate, Public Spirit, Republics, Reward, The People, Virtue, Wise
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First Principles: Government Is Made Safe Through the Virtue of the People
“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any … Continue reading
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Tagged Chimerical Idea, Community, First Principles, Form, Happiness, Intelligence, James Madison, Liberty, Secure, Selection, The People, Theoretical Checks, Virtue, Wretched
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Thought For the Day: Family Is the Main Source of Education For Children
“The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
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Tagged Character, Child, Critically, Education, Family, Father, Goal, Group, Humanity, Intelligence, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother, Think, Thought For the Day
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Ravens of the Tower
Based on the ravens found at the Tower of London: Ravens of the Tower by Michael Romani To most, a raven is a raven is a raven A bird of some mystery and a little craven But simply a bird … Continue reading
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Tagged Bird, British, Contradiction, Corvid, Croak, Final Hour, Intelligence, Monarchy, Photograph, Poem, Poetic Word, Poetry, Raven, Social Hierarchy, Symbols, Tower of London
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Thought For the Day: Knowledge of This World Begins In Its Details
“Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Change, Circle, Details, Heraclitus, Intelligence, Knowledge, Natural History, Road, Thought For the Day, Truth, Unchangin, Unexpected, World
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Alien Revelation
Until we are dead, to believe or not believe is a matter of faith. My own examination through my life points toward great evidence for God and Christianity. Other equally intelligent people have reached other conclusions. Life is funny that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Apple, Atheist, Copernican, Equation, Forbidden, Free Will, God Breathed, God's Image, Goldilocks Zone, Heaven, Humanity, Initiation, Intelligence, Intrinsic, Myth, Oxford, Parable, Perspective, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Probability, Revelation, Science, Singularity, Special, Spectra, Stars, String, Truth, Universe, Variables
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