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Thought For the Day: We Have To Do With the Past Only As We Can Make It Useful To the Present and the Future
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” – Frederick Douglass, in The Meaning of the Fourth of July For the Negro
The Rejected Man Stumbles
The Rejected Man Stumblesby Michael DoyleThe rejected man stumbles back into the darknessFilled as he has become by this life’s harshnessHe had been helpful and knowledgeable in his waysAnd though ill-tempered, he was useful in his daysScience, too, is useful … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberration, Abomination, Acceptable, Accountable, Afraid, Anger, Appointed Stations, Argument, Arrogance, Blame, Blindness, Cautionary Tale, Challengers, Cloud, Consensus, Consicence, Cruelty, Darkness, Dedication, Differently, Disgrace, Diviine, Encourage, Enmity, Experts and Tyrants, Fortunetellers, Free, Full Moon, Governance, Harshness, Honest Peson, Ill-Tempered, Immune, Impertinence, Imposition, Infidelity To God, Inner Voices, Insurmountable, Intemperance, Knowledge, Last Words, Learn, Learned Positions, Lessons, Majority, Monster, Mystery, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Position, Prejudices, Proud, Pursuit of Truth, Question, Questions, Rage, Reject, Rejected Man, Remedy, Rule, Science, Seek, Shame, Shine, Sources, Status Quo, Steadfast, Struggle, Stumble, Swallow, Systeem, Tame, Test, Throne, Tongue, Tranquil, Travail, True Solutions, Trust, Undaunted, Undermine, Unkindness, Useful, Venomous, Vulnerability, Ways, Well, Wise Voice, Yoke, Young
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Thought For the Day: It Is Self-Evident That Language Has Not Bled To Death Through Change
“Prolonged study of the English language leaves me with a conviction that nearly all the linguistic tendencies of the present day have been displayed in earlier centuries, and it is self-evident that the language has not bled to death through … Continue reading
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Tagged Antidote, Bled To Death, Burdensome, Centuries, Change, Conviction, Crudities, Die, Display, Distinctions, English Language, Flourish, Language, Linguistic Tendencies, Present Day, Robert W. Burchfield, Self-Evident, Soften, Study, Thought For the Day, Time, Useful, Vulgarity
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First Principles: Become Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale, 1776
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Tagged Country, Exigencies, Expectation, First Principles, Honorable, Influence, Nathan Hale, Necessary, Pecuniary, Promotion, Public Good, Reward, Service, Useful
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First Principles: Every Child In America Should Be Acquainted With His Own Country
“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquainted, America, Books, Country, Every Child, First Principles, History, Ideas, Life and Practice, Lips, Noah Webster, Read, Useful
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First Principles: Hard Words Are Very Rarely Useful. Real Firmness Is Good For Everything. Strut Is Good for Nothing.
“Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.” – Alexander Hamilton
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Everything, First Principles, Good, Hard Words, Nothing, Rare, Real Firmness, Strut, Useful
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First Principles: Every Child In America Should Be Acquainted With His Own Country
“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy At All…It Is To Matter, To Have It Make Some Difference That You Lived.
“The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.” – Leo Rosten
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Tagged Compassionate, Happy, Honorable, Leo Rosten, Lived, Make Some Difference, Matter, Purpose of Life, Thought For the Day, Useful
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First Principles: I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good, Become Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale, 1776
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Tagged Every Kind of Service, Exigencies, First Principles, Honorable, Imperious, My Country, Nathan Hale, Necessary, Public Good, Service, Useful, Wish
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First Principles: May the Father of All Mercies Scatter Light, and Not Darkness, Upon Our Paths
“May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths.” –George Washington, 1790
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Tagged All Mercies, Due Time, Everlasting, Father, First Principles, George Washington, Happy, His, Light, Not Darkness, Paths, Useful, Vocations
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 