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A Bit of Wisdom from Harry S. Truman |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 05/08/2023 12:05 PM
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Kansas City, MO...Harry S. Truman May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972. Our 33rd President.
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."
"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."
"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril."
"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
"The buck stops here!" |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 05/03/2023 10:21 AM
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Florence, Italy...Niccolò Machiavelli 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527 Author of The Prince. This widely read treatise on power offers an amoral look at power. Advice hopefully not always followed but recognised nonetheless.
“It is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
"Before all else, be armed." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Ulysses S. Grant |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/27/2023 10:25 AM
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Wilton, NY...Ulysses S. Grant April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885 Civil War General & 18th President.
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
"Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished."
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from John James Audubon |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/26/2023 10:12 AM
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New York, NY...John James Audubon April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 Author, Naturalist, and Ornithologist.
"All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements."
“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”
“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.” |
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A Bit of Wisdom from J. P. Morgan |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2023 10:42 AM
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Hartford, CT...John Pierpont Morgan Sr. April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913 The father of modern finance & banking. His firm helped provide the capital as the US Economy became the largest in the world. His power was such at its zenith that he and a group of bankers actually saved the US monetary system from collapsing in 1907.
"No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking."
"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one."
"I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."
"If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Corrie ten Boom |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/16/2023 02:55 PM
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Haarlem, Netherlands...Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom 15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983. Holocaust Survivor & helped many Jews escape the Nazis.
"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
"Let God's promises shine on your problems." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Thomas Jefferson |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/14/2023 01:01 PM
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Washington, DC...Thomas Jefferson April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826 a Founding Father & third President of the United States
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."
"One man with courage is a majority." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Henry Clay |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/13/2023 08:40 AM
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Henry Clay Sr. April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852. American Secretary of State, Senator & Congressman
"The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."
"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."
"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition."
"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters."
"I would rather be right than President." |
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Tuolumne County Sheriff's Dept. Activity Logs for April 6, 2023 |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/07/2023 05:21 PM
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Sonora, CA...The latest Tuolumne County Sheriff's Deputies Activity Logs are enclosed...
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A Bit of Wisdom from Christ on Good Friday |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/07/2023 05:10 PM
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Jerusalem, Israel...A Bit of Wisdom from Christ on Good Friday.
The Head of Christ painting by Warner Sallman, 1941
"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."
"All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself."
"For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day."
"So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you."
"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone." |
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