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First Principles: Legal Immigrants From All Nations Are Welcome As Long As These Conform To American Laws
“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.” – Thomas … Continue reading
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Tagged Conform, Established Rules, First Principles, Foreign, Join, Law, Legal, Society, Thomas Jefferson
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Played Like The Boss
The relevance of rock-n-roll is how something so irreverently off the cuff could change the world into the mainly the Key of E. E for emotion, excitement, energy, enjoyment and evolving us into a whole new paradigm. Many watching wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Applause, Boss, Change, Chin, Chord, Common Man, Constant, Dark, Doubt, Explosion, Glory, Guitar, Home, Jaded Past, Key of E, Light, Motorcycle, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Revolution, Rock N Roll, Satisfaction, Six String, Society, Songs, Stage Lights, Story, Television, Truth, World, Young Boy
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First Principles: As Wealth Accumulates In Few Hands, Virtue Will Decrease and Society Depart from the Republican Standard
“As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican … Continue reading
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Tagged Accumulate, Alexander Hamilton, Depart, Few, First Principles, Increase, Luxury, Republican Standard, Riches, Society, Vritue, Wealth
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Thought For the Day: Only In Allowing the Human Spirit To Invent and Create Taking A Personal Stake Can Societies Remain Dynamic
“Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success — only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Benefit, Create, Dynamic, Economy, First Principles, Free, Human Spirit, Invent, Personal Stake, Policy, Progressive, Ronald Reagan, Society
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The Dreams We Need
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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Tagged Agreed, Awake, Ballet Slippers, Bliss, Care, Child, Child's Heart, Children, Dance, Dreams, Edge, Fabric, Find, Give, Glow, Happy, Kiss, Laugh, Light, Light Show, Love, Memory, Mind, Money, Moonbeam, Music, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Razzle Dazzle, Safe, Serenade, Share, Sleep, Smile, Society, Style, Surprise, Take, Universe, Verse, Vision, Waking Moment, Wish
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Thought For the Day: It Is Through the Sharing of Knowledge That Members of Civilized Society Can Pursue Individual Ends So Successfully
“It is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual’s use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that … Continue reading
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Tagged Civilization, Ends, FA von Hayek, Individual, Knowledge, Profit, Society, Success, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Education Is the Passing of A Society’s Soul From Generation To Generation
“What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture, Education, Generation, GK Chesterton, Society, Soul, Teach, Thought For the Day, Transition, Truth
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First Principles: To Vote Is A Solemn Trust Accountable To God and Country
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Citizen, Country, First Principles, God, Samuel Adams, Society, Solemn Trust, Vote
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Ashes of Daybreak
Maybe it would be better to start this look at Julius Caesar sometime around the Ides of March? Still… Ashes of Daybreak by Michael Romani Brushes with death lived as life Young Julius pushed on through the strife For every … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Battle, Battle of Silarius, Crumble, Daybreak, Empire, Fight, Glory, Ides of March, Julius Caesar, Nobility, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rome, Servile Wars, Slaves, Society, Soldier, Spartacus, Victory, Virtue, Warrior
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Into the Hands of Lucifer
Another more or less for Halloween and based in part on the Tiggy provided word prompt of “suspense”: Into the Hands of Lucifer by Michael Romani Such is the language of demons cast down That we strictly start with boots … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandon, Autumn, Ball, Betray, Chill, Civility, Complain, Complications, Confusion, Creatures of the Night, Delusion, Demonic Language, Duplicity, Eternity, Fly, God, Gold, Halloween, Lucifer, Machinations, Master, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Ruins, Samhain, Society, Spider, Suspense, Trap, Truth, Will
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