The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.


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Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is...
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Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten good...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
The more leeches there are affixed to a host, the less resources there are to siphon from said hosts...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They ...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
The right to write is too sacred to be wrong with.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed ...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
In business, ruthlessness is righteousness.

Seldom are there those, whom are ruthlessly r...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
One of the most liberating notions is learning how many truly do not care about you, and moreover, h...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retai...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Happiness is gleaned from a source, which can be attributed to all experiences; it can be found wher...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will....
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Some are saving their right now for later, when tomorrow could be never.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Avarice is opposed to nobility.
It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (gre...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrup...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same ch...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.
JUSTIN KYLE MCFARLANE BEAU
Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any fo...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Today. the celebration is for the "victorious", not the meritorious. The depiction to the youth, is ...
JUSTIN KYLE MCFARLANE BEAU
They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Babes cry, and children whine, but adults sabotage.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality.
The second stage...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Sorry is the day, and full of lament, when the young have to guard themselves from being food for th...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond t...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. ...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Say what you will of religion, but draw applicable conclusions and comparisons to reach a consensus....
JUSTIN KYLE MCFARLANE BEAU
Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre m...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, wh...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
They don't know who I am; what they do know, is that I'm not nothing, and that I'm not noone.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
We can have traders, without them being traitors.

We can trade, without trading others. JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing th...
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