Give Me A Minute To Think About That…

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—    Aristotle
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2016	Power Inside
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2014	It Slipped Away
2013	Corollary
2012	Working Retired
2011	The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?)

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The Right Anger

Anybody can become angry — that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power.
—    Aristotle
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2016	Growing Worlds
2015	Change The Tide
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2014	You, Too!
2013	Bitter Stand
2012	Lost For Words
2011	On Market Reactions…

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Start By Trying

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
—    Aristotle
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2016	Said The Man Who Trained To Fight For A Living
2015	Tripping On Treasure
2014	The Flower Of Light
2013	Eye Catching
2012	The Holstee Manifesto
2011	Three Crooners For The Shower
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The Best Of Circumstances

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
—    Aristotle
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2015	Reverberating Silence
2014	Wrong Again?
2013	Improper Faith
2012	One More Rung
2011	Sunday Morning Earlies (Hugging trees and smiling…)
	Hurry
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2010	It’s Gettin’ Deep In Here

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Sometimes I Wonder About Things

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
―    Aristotle
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2014	Still Racing
2013	Anew
2012	Make Both
2011	Are You Happy Yet?

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Righteous Anger

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
—    Aristotle
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2013	An Irish Blessing
2012	But Is It Worth It?
2011	Let Us Start

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Well Hard

Our love of things of the mind does not make us soft.
—    Aristotle
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On This Day In:
2013	Because I Can
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2012	Why Bother?
2011	Peculiar Notions

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Eventually Formed

Aristotle wrote:  “The virtues arise in us neither by nature nor against nature, but we are by nature able to acquire them, and reach our complete perfection through habit.”  Acquiring virtues is how character develops.  Only when one develops the knowing habit of right action, does one become good.  One learns, one does, and one becomes.  Habit eventually forms the person one has educated oneself to become.
—      Lt. Col. Peter Fromm, U.S. Army, Retired; Lt. Col. Douglas Pryer, U.S. Army; and Lt. Col. Kevin Cutright, U.S. Army
From their article: “The Myths We Soldiers Tell Ourselves (and the Harm These Myths Do)“
Found at:  http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/ English/MilitaryReview_20131031_art010.pdf
Originally found via one of the blogs I follow:  http://carryingthegun.wordpress.com/
The specific post is:  http://carryingthegun.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/ the-ethics-of-the-marine-corps-urination-case/
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Two For One

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
—    Aristotle
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Seven Causes

Every action must be due to one or the other of seven causes:  chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
—    Aristotle
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Habit Forming

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
—    Aristotle
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