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First Principles: I Think the Best Way of Doing Good To the Poor, Is Not Making Them Easy In Poverty, But Leading or Driving them Out of It
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin F ranklin, Best Way, Contrary, Different Countries, Drive, Easy, First Principles, Good, Lead, Less, More, Observe, Poor, Poverty, Public Provisions, Richer, Trave, Youth
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Thought For the Day: Of All the Preposterous Assumptions of Humanity Over Humanity, Nothing Exceeds Most of the Criticisms Made On the Habits of the Poor By the Well-Houses, Well-Warmed and Well-Fed
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” -Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1 Aug 1819-1891) But that doesn’t mean … Continue reading
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Tagged Assumptions, Criticism, Exceed, Habits, Herman Melville, Humanity, Poor, Preposterous, Thought For the Day, Well-Fed, Well-Housed, Well-Warmed
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Raised Small Town
Raised Small Townby Michael DoyleI was raised all around this world, you seeBelieving in America and our cherished libertyWherever it was that my family might be foundWe stood up straight and chased truth aroundUntil we caught it by its length … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Believe, Better Person, Cherish, Conceive, Deal Fairly, Duplicity, Equal Opportunity, Family, Found, Liberty, Merit and Character, Nation, Neighbors, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Prevail, Principles, Raised, Raised Up Right, Rich In Soul, Right Walk, See, Skin, Small Town, Smile, Stand, Straight, Tail, Truth, Win, World
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Thought For the Day: No One Has Ever Become Poor By Giving
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” -Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (12 Jun 1929-1945)
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Thought For the Day: The Dividing Line In America Right Now Is….Between Those Who Are Fundamentally Pro-American and Those Who Are Anti-American
“The dividing line in America right now isn’t between rich and poor, black and white, or even Democrat and Republican. It’s between those who are fundamentally pro-American and those who are anti-American.” – Vivek Ramaswamy
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Tagged America, Anti-American, Between, Black, Democrat, Dividing Line, Fundamental, Poor, Pro-American, Republican, Rich, Right Now, Thought For the Day, Vivek Ramaswamy, White
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Thought For the Day: Ultimately, It Is the Responsibility of Individuals To Pull Themselves Up By Their Own Bootstraps, Make Responsible Financial Decisions, Pursue Eduction…and Fight To Break the Cycle of Poverty
“Ultimately, it is the responsibility of individuals to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, make responsible financial decisions, pursue education … and fight to break the cycle of poverty. Many poor remain poor because they do not know how … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Apple Pie, Better Life, Better Opportunities, Bootstraps, Break, Children, Cycle of Poverty, Education, Emmy Griffin, Example, Financial Decisions, Hard Work, Individuals, Money, Perserverance, Poor, Poverty Line, Realize, Responsibility, Responsible, Successful Immigrant Story, Tenor, Thought For the Day, Ultimate
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A Montage of Selective Outrage
A Selective Montage of Selective Outrageby Michael DoyleHave we finally got to the turn of the pageLiving life cut by cut of selective outrageIt seems so, or at least I have this hunchThat a few bad apples have spoiled the … Continue reading
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First Principles: Do Not Pervert Justice; Do Not Show Partiality To the Poor Or Favoritism To the Great, but Judge Your Neighbor Fairly
“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.” – Leviticus 19:15
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Tagged Fair, Favoritism, First Principles, Judge, Justice, Leviticus 19:15, Neighbor, Partiality, Pervert, Poor, The Great
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Thought For the Day: Politics Is the Gentle Art of Getting Votes From the Poor and Campaign Funds From the Rich, By Promising To Protect Each From the Other
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”- Oscar Ameringer (1870-1943)
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Tagged Gentle Art, Getting Votes, Oscar Ameringer, Politics, Poor, Promise, Protect, Rich, Thought For the Day
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Into Something More
Into Something Moreby Michael DoyleStrive and fight for a better lifeFinding believed in utopia was naughtBut disappointment with hints of strifeIdeals purchased with bloodied tears soughtOnly to find these too lacking in the endAnd while life goes on, we cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Ancient, Beauty, Better Life, Cancer, Change, Comic Opera, Connection, Correction, Darkness, Disappointment, Dripping Poison, End, Faith, Flittering By, Follies, Foreign Shore, Full Circle, Gain, Grasp, Happiness, Hear, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Jaded, Judgment, Lack, Life Goes On, Light, Lives, Mercy, Mirror, Passing By, Penitent, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Prayers, Prevail, Purity of Reason, Pursuits, Repent, Right, Season, Society, Something More, Sought, Storied Legacy, Strange, Strife, Suffering, Tale, Trend, True, Trust, Utopia, Views, Voices, Yesterday
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