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Monthly Archives: August 2019
Thought For the Day: One Day You’ll Walk Away Never Realizing You Were My Life
“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” – Khalil Gibran
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Tagged Day, Important, Khalil Gibran, Know, Me, Mine, My Life, One, Thought For the Day, Walk Away, You, Yours
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Fades Away
Life leaves us all, eventually… or, do we really transform into something else? Time will tell. Fades Away by Michael Romani Being somewhat civilized I kept my discontents to myself More probably cause I realized I’d find my better answers … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna, Answer, Away, Chattering Classes, Civil, Cruel, Discontent, Exasperation, Fade, Forget, Friend, Gasp, Grasp, Intention, Kingdom, Last Breath, Matter, Moment, Passing, Penitence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Regret, Shatter, Shelf, Silent, Strong, Struggle, Torment, Weak, Wisdom, Wise Words, Wrong
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Ozone Care
Another of the Earth’s little protective systems is that fragile shield call the ozone layer. Ozone Care by Michael Romani Gliding through the ozone with good care Minding the healing of this protective layer The Earth, she is a living, … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Care, Chain Reaction, Dry Land, Earth, Embrace, Glide, God, Heal, Human Race, Invisible Hand, Land Life, Layer, Mankind, Offer, Oxygen, Ozone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Government Has No Right To Control Individual Liberty Beyond What Is Necessary To the Safety and Well-Being of Society
“Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boundary, Citizen, Control, Government, Individual Liberty, John C Calhoun, Liberty, Necessary, Power, Right, Safety, Separates, Society, Thought For the Day, Well Being
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First Principles: The Abolition of Slavery Is the Great Object of Desire In Our Early Republic
“The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.” – Thomas Jefferson On July 1, 2019, Charlottesville stripped it’s celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birth from its holidays … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolition, Colonies, Domestic, First Principles, Infant State, Introduce, Objective, Slavery, Thomas Jefferson
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Strong On Defense
The Sun is one part friend and one part foe. It’s amazing thinking of the ways the Earth protects us from this. https://flic.kr/p/mzC6Hg Strong On Defense by Michael Romani What is the strength of the solar flares To measure this, … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Assassin, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Burn, Core, Curtain, Damage, Defense, Earth, Edge, Fissures, Foe, Friend, Heart, Heat, Inferno, Lava, Light, Magnetic Field, Mars, Motion, Night, Ocean, Orbit, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Radioactive, Ravage, Shield, Show, Solar Flare, Space, Strong, Study, Sun, Ultra Violet, Vents, Volcano, Zenith
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First Principles: In A Representative Republic, the Education of Our Children Must Be of Utmost Importance
“In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!” – James Monroe
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Tagged Children, Education, First Principles, Importance, James Monroe, Representative, Republic
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Thought For the Day: A Clock’s Perfection Is In Its Accuracy, Not Its Speed
“The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.” – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, moralist and essayist (6 Aug 1715-1747)
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Tagged Accurate, Clock, Fast, Luc de Clapiers, Perfection, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Failing To Pay Attention To the World’s Details Prevents All But A Few From Seeing and Discovering God
“That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Deity, Discover, Evidence, Excess, First Principles, George Berkeley, Great Truth, Inattention, Light, Mankind, Mind, Reason, Surround
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