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Thought For the Day: If You Want Your Children To Turn Out Well, Spend Twice As Much Time With Them and Half As Much Money

Posted on April 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren

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End of the Frontier

Posted on March 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Between the 1870s to the early 1900s, American society became a vast sea of sea change in matters of all forms of transformation going on at once. End of the Frontier by Michael Doyle The travesty of the Civil War … Continue reading →

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Leaving Yesterdays Behind

Posted on March 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What matters profit if it has cost your soul? Leaving Yesterdays Behind by Michael Doyle What it is that seems fit Is often enough a matter Devoted entirely to profit All other arguments shatter The implication is clear That neither … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Make Sure That You Haven’t Lost the Things That Money Can’t Buy

Posted on October 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” – George H. Lorimer, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Give Up the Earth and All It Contains Rather Than Do An Immoral Act

Posted on August 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)

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In A Honeyed Land

Posted on July 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Every biome or space in nature or land has a particular carrying capacity for what can be taken from it without removing the stability found there. Also, for how much life and of what kinds it can support. But, for … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Public Fund Expenditures Must Be Fully Accounted For

Posted on June 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)

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First Principles: The End of Our Republic Is Heralded By People Voting Themselves Money

Posted on May 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” – Benjamin Franklin

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Thought For the Day: Government Does Nothing As Well Or Economically As the Private Sector

Posted on January 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, ‘What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.’ But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does … Continue reading →

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The Dreams We Need

Posted on December 30, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

As a society, we spend too much time trying to stifle the dreams of both children and the inner most child in all of us. We misplace our values, thinking that dreams are merely wants. We dream to dream. … Continue reading →

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