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Monthly Archives: October 2019
First Principles: A Nation Which Does Not Remember What It Was Yesterday, Does Not Know What It Is Today, Nor What It Is Trying To Do
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came … Continue reading
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Tagged Been About, Came From, Do, First Principles, Futile, Know, Nation, Remember, Today, Try, Woodrow Wilson, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: It Is Those Whose Case Is Weak Who Make the Most Clamour
“When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.” – Piers Anthony
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Tagged Accusation, Case, Check, Clamor, Guilt, Person, Piers Anthony, Thought For the Day, Weak
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Given To the Fire
Halloween Poem #24: https://flic.kr/p/s4ZNhr Given To the Fire by Michael Romani Gazing on the precious cross Given to the fire with a toss One soul stood itself alone But, oh so, very lost and alone As if her heart were … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Alone, Atone, Aware, Battle, Begun, Best, Breath, Brutal, Candle, Close, Cross, Curse, Damned, Death, Destination, Dies, Embrace, End, End of Days, Eyes, Face, Fatal, Fire, Friend, Friends, Give, God, Goodbye, Halloween, Heart, Humanity, Immortality, Incarnate, Invoke, Kiss, Know, Life, Light, Love, Night, Offering, Pain, Pale, Peace On Earth, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Protection, Remorse, Run, Salvation, Sin, Soul, Squander, Stone, Suffering, Tear, Today, Vain, Wander, Whisper, Wisdom, Wolf, Wolf of God, Won
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Thought For the Day: The Trouble With the Rat Race Is That Even If You Win, You’re Still A Rat
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin
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Tagged Even, Lily Tomlin, Rat, Rat Race, Still, Thought For the Day, Trouble, Win
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First Principles: Constitutions Act As Restraint On the Hasty Action of the Majority
“Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.” – William Howard Taft … Continue reading
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Tagged Check, Constitution, First Principles, Hasty Action, Majority, Minority, Respect, Restraint, Rights, Self Imposed, Sober Action, Whole People, William Howard Taft
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Let Your World End
Halloween Poem #23: Let Your World End by Michael Romani Mother, can you forgive your son For all of the ungodly things That I have self-righteously done And for all of the pain that it brings As you call me … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiquity, Call, Cane, Edgar Allan Poe, End, Floor, Forgive, Halloween, Iniquity, Jade, Mind's Door, Mother, Name, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Rap, Self Righteous, Sin, Sins, Son, Tap, Ungodly, World
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Thought For the Day: The Pledge of American Allegiance Should Be Directed At the Constitution and Bill of Rights
“I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation” – Carl Sagan … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill of Rights, Carl Sagan, Constitution, Direct, Flag, Nation, Oath of Office, Pledge of Allegiance, President, Thought For the Day, Wish
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First Principles: An Immigrant Coming In Good Faith To Become An Assimilated American Should Be Treated Equally With All Others
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Assimilate, Become, Birthplace, Creed, Discriminate, Equal, Fact, First Principles, Good Faith, Immigrant, Nothing, Origin, Outrage, Predicate, Theodore Roosevelt, Treated
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Taken Path
Halloween Poem #22: Taken Path by Michael Romani Even we who make our own heaven and hell Cannot evade that most singular of details That the chosen Wolf of God is our prophecy A singular enemy that is our owned … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Blood, Bring, Bury, Carry, Cave, Choice, Control, Crimson, Cure, Dark, Destiny, Detail, Dig, Do, Embrace, End, Enemy, Evil, Fable, Fear, Few, Fight, Fog, Forever, Full Moon, Gift, Gods, Grave, Halloween, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Heresy, History, Infusion, Know, Legacy, Light, Man, Mud, Night, Offspring, Path, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poison, Power, Prophecy, River, Run, Save, Shaman, Sin, Single, Singular, Soul, Stand, Strength, Vision, Wolf, Wolf of God, World
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Thought For the Day: Civilization Began the First Time An Angry Person Cast A Word Instead of A Rock
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” – Sigmund Freud
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Tagged Anger, Began, Cast, Civilization, First, Person, Rock, Sigmund Freud, Thought For the Day, Word
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