The foundational principle…

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“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”

“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”

–Stephen R. Covey

Channels made for sharing

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“God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.”

–Billy Graham

The right to be different…

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“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”

–Charles Evans Hughes

Where we are going…

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“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

–Yogi Berra

A New Kind of Living

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“It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”

–Nathaniel Hawthorne, Early American novelist

“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”

–Henri J. M. Nouwen, Christian mystic

Honesty

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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

–Thomas Jefferson

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”

–George Bernard Shaw

Common Sense

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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
–Albert Einstein

“Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.”
–Reinhold Niebuhr

“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I reflect that God is just…

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“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

–Thomas Jefferson

Excluded From the Means…

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“Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.”

–John Stuart Mill

The aristocracy of our monied corporations…

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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

–Thomas Jefferson

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”

–Mark Twain

The Trial of Principle

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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

–Albert Einstein

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.”

–Henry Fielding

Coin, credit and circulation

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“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
–Mark Twain

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation [money].”
–John Adams

“The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.”
–Will Rogers