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First Principles: Securing Peace Is One of the Most Powerful Instruments Is Our Rising Prosperity

Posted on May 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If we desire to insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Society Cannot Trample On the Weakest and Feeblest of Its Members Without Receiving the Curse In Its Own Soul

Posted on May 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.” – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Thought For the Day: We Have To Move Forward and Get People Back To Some Sense of Normalcy

Posted on April 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We don’t have a choice. We have to move forward and get people back to some sense of normalcy.” – Dan Crenshaw To live in fear, boxed in without hope, without pursuing our dreams and loves and all the goodness … Continue reading →

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First Principles: When Planning For Posterity, Remember That Virtue Is Not Hereditary

Posted on April 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” – Thomas Paine (1776)

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Holding Hands With the Sun

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Falling in love with art is an intimate construction within ourselves expressed both outwardly and inwardly. Holding Hands With the Sun by Michael Doyle An experience of the narrative Doodles swirled in declarative Filling out the feels An imaginative look … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: When We Try To Pick Out Anything By Itself, We Find It Hitched To Everything Else In the Universe

Posted on April 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” – John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (21 Apr 1838-1914)

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Thought For the Day: The Real Hope Is Not In Something We Can Do, But In God, Who Is Making Something Good Out of It In Some Way We Cannot See

Posted on April 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.” – Thomas Merton

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First Principles: We Must Not Let Our Rulers Load Us With Perpetual Debt

Posted on April 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” – Thomas Jefferson, in Letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816) All of these trillions of dollars of debt we are currently incurring… When does the payment come … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Life Doesn’t Get Easier or More Forgiving, We Get Stronger and More Resilient

Posted on March 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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Thought For the Day: We Discover Our Greatness When We Find Ourselves In A Situation Bigger Than We Are and We Manage To Grow and Become Bigger Than the Situation

Posted on March 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We discover our greatness when we find ourselves in a situation bigger than we are and we manage to grow and become bigger than the situation.” – Luigina Sgarro

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