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First Principles: The Latent Causes of Faction Are Thus Sown In the Nature of Man
“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.” – James Madison (1787)
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Hiking Indiana State Parks – Central Plain – Mounds State Park
PLEASE KNOW THERE IS A FORMATTING ERROR THAT PERTAINS TO THE PHOTOS FROM MY CELL CAMERA. I WILL CONTACT THE WP HELP DESK TOMORROW MORNING TO FIND OUT WHAT’S GOING ON. FIVE ATTEMPTED FIXES IS ENOUGH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR … Continue reading
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Tagged 1819, Adena, Adults, Adventures, Archeological Digs, Awls, Bluff, Boardwalk, Borders, California, Canyons and Ravines, Central Plain, Ceremonial Mounds, Ceremonial Stone Pipe, Church, Civilization, Daughters, Eagle Creek Park, Earth Mother, Earthworks, Ecology, Embrace, Explore, Fall Creek, Farmland, Featureless, Fiddleback, Formalhault, Geology, Great Mound, Hike, hiking, Hills, History, Hoosier, Hopewell, Human Eyes, Human History, Impulse, Indiana, Indiana State Parks, Indianapolis, Indianapolis 500, John Muir, Lake Michigan, Lakes, Learn, Log Tomb, Loop Hike, Michigan River, Midwest and Southern Regions, Misconception, Mounds, Mounds State Park, Natural Treasures, Nature, Nature Preserve, Ohio River, Photographs & Memories, Pine Hills, Pottery Shards, Ramble, Region, Remnant, Rivers, Rolling Plains, Sandstone Despoits, Settler Home, Shades State Park, Steel Mills, Streams, Summer Solstice, Sun God, Sunday, Trails, Travel, Turkey Run State Park, VisitorCenter, Wabash River, White River, Widespread Culture, Woodland
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Thought For the Day: Literature Is Strewn With the Wreckage of Men Who Have Minded Beyond Reason the Opinions of Others
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” – Virginia Woolf
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Tagged Artist, Beyond Reason, Literature, Mind, Mind Excessively, Nature, Opinions of Others, Said, Strewn, Thought For the Day, Virginia Woolf, Wreckage
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Truth of Dust Roads Taken
Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath
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First Principles: The Propriety of A Law, In A Constitutional Light, Must Always Be Determined By the Nature of the Powers Upon Which It is Founded
“The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Capacity, Children, Courage, Cre, Creep, dd, Eelevate, Excel, Faculty, Family, First Principles, Grovel, Growth, Habitual Contempt, Industry, Infancy, Inhumanity, John Adams, Life, Lives, Love, Meanness, Minds, Nature, Poetry, Virtue
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First Principles: Liberty Cannot Be Preserved Without A General Knowledge Among the People, Who Have A Right…To Knowledge
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Art Is A Man’s Nature; Nature Is God’s Art
“Art is a man’s nature; nature is God’s art.” – Philip James Bailey
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Thought For the Day: There Is Always More Goodness In the World Than There Appears To Be, Because Goodness Is of Its Very Nature Modest and Retiring
“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.” -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956)
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Thought For the Day: Climate Science Has Become Less About Understanding the Complexities of the World and More About Serving As A Kind of Cassandra
“To put it bluntly, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world and more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, urgently warning the public about the dangers of climate change.” – Patrick Brown I Left … Continue reading
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Tagged Blunt, Cassandra, Climate Change, Climate Science, Complex, Danger, Nature, Patrick Brown, Public, Science, Serve, The Free Press, Thought For the Day, Understand, Urgent, Warn, World
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