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First Principles: Nothing In This World Can Take the Place of Persistence. Persistence and Determination Alone Are Omnipotent

Posted on April 10, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Only Thing Necessary For the Triumph of Evil Is For Good Men To Do Nothing

Posted on January 27, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

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Thought For the Day: Men Occasionally Stumble Over the Truth, But Most of Them Pick Themselves Up and Hurry Off As If Nothing Had Happened

Posted on December 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston Churchill

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First Principles: Out of Small Beginnings Greater Things Have Been Produced By His Hand That Made All Things of Nothing, and Gives Being To All Things That Are

Posted on November 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Nothing Is More Essential To the Establishment of Manners In A State Than That All Persons Employed In Places of Power and Trust Must Be Men of Unexceptionable Characters

Posted on October 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775)

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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is More Active Than Thought, For It Travels Over the Universe, and Nothing Is Stronger Than Necessity For All Must Submit To It

Posted on August 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.” – Thales

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First Principles: Do Nothing Out of Selfish Ambition Or Vain Conceit. Rather, In Humility, Value Others Above Yourselves

Posted on August 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.” – Philippians 2:3 NIV

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To Feel Good, Do Good

Posted on July 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

To Feel Good, Do Goodby Michael DoyleUnhappiness Is an affliction on bliss.By Cicero’s severed neck,Duty can make us into wrecksThose who live in their mindAre too often left behind.Such is the way of those in powerWho care only for a … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Cannot Be Cured By What Is Right With America

Posted on July 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” – Bill Clinton

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First Principles: Do Nothing Out of Selfish Ambition or Vain Conceit. Rather, In Humility Value Others Above Yourselves, Not Looking To Your Own Interests But Each of You To the Interests of the Others

Posted on June 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” – Philippians 2:3-4

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