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First Principles: Yesterday Is Not Ours To Recover, But Tomorrow Is Ours To Win Or Lose

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Thought For the Day: When We Find Someone Whose Weirdness Is Compatible With Ours, We Join With Them and Fall Into Mutually Satisfying Weirdness – and Call It Love – True Love

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true … Continue reading

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The All American Get Together

The All American Get Togetherby Michael Doyle This world of ours has seenWhat is called fairer weatherBusy as we are in simply beingAnd hoping things turn better With Fourth of July coming soonWe are malcontent in preparationRefusing to allow fears … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Wisdom Is Out There To Be Thought On and Made Our Own

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)    

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First Principles: The Spirit of Liberty Respects and Insists On the Rights of Others

“The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled … Continue reading

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