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First Principles: A Nation, Despicable By Its Weakness, Forfeits Even the Privilege of Being Neutral
“The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 11
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Tagged Adequate, Alexander Hamilton, Defend, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Forfeit, Nation, Neutral, Neutrality, Power, Privilege, Respect, Rights, Weak
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Material With Which Human Beings Work Which Has So Much Potential Energy As Words
“There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words.” – Earnest Calkins
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Tagged Earnest Calkins, Energy, Human Being, Material, Potential, Thought For the Day, Words
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An Indictment of the 20th Century
We have lived through the bloodiest and cruelest century of mankind’s history. God surely must be crying. An Indictment of the 20th Century by Michael Doyle Einstein insisted God did not play with dice While other insisted God needed no … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Advice, Blood, Breakdown, Breath, Calamity, Certainty, Change, Civility, Claim, Clash, Communism, Cruel, Cry, Culture, Destruction, Diametric, Dice, Dim, Disorder, Einstein, Face, Fascism, Function, Genocide, God, Good, History, Homocide, Humanity, Indictment, Legacy, Level, Litany, Lives, Mankind, Mayhem, Modernity, Morality, Need, New, Old, Opposition, Outrage, Pandemic, Pessimism, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Prospect, Revolutionaries, Sense, Sensibility, Socialism, Society, Souls, Tearful, Travesty, Twin, World War Two
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New Music For A Troubled Century
A sort of brief start of a look into 20th neo-classical/art music: New Music For A Troubled Century by Michael Doyle All music was once new it seems There’s no accounting for esoteric dreams One fifth of the way through … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Abandon, Account, Age, Babble On, Babylon, Beethoven, Belief, Belong, Blend, Castaway, Century, Change, Composer, Comprehension, Contemporary, Cost, Dream, Esoteric, Expression, Familiarity, God, Harmony, Heart, Heat, Heaven, Him, Hyper-Drive, Inclination, Insinuation, Lift, Look Back, Lost, Melody, Mind Numbing, Music, Musician, Mutilate, Neo-Classical, New, Pace, Personal Signature, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Rate, Reflection, Rest, Revolution, Sear, Self Expression, Service, Singer, Society, Song, Soul, Spiritual, Standard, Strange, Style, Symphonic, Tear, Tension, Test, Tonal, Tonality, Trouble, Voices
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So Much Sky
Ever been out in the middle of wilderness and realized the vastness of the universe and the smallness of humanity? So Much Sky by Michael Doyle So much sky That a person might get lost In a freedom one cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Brilliance, Buy, Compromise, Cost, Destiny, Empty, Fear, Freedom, Gold, Hidden, Humanity, Infamous, Journey, Lost, Overflown, Overgrown, Perplex, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Promise, Quicksand, Reconnaissance, River, Sky, Small, Universe, Vanity, Vast, Verity, Wilderness
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First Principles: Difficulties Are Meant To Rouse, Not Discourage
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.” – William Ellery
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Tagged Difficulties, Discourage, First Principles, Meant, Rouse, William Ellery
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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Language of God
“The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Birth, Breath, Children, Close, God, Hear, Language of God, Lips, Ludwig van Beethoven, Man, Music, Praise, Read, Sing, Soul, Speak, Thought For the Day, Vibration, Voice
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2020
Despite all that has come to pass it would be in my opinion almost sacrilegious not to wish all a Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2020!! May God’s soft rain fall on you always to allow the flowers of your … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Benefit, Blessing, Bloom, Every Moment, Faith, Flower, God, Happy St Patrick's Day, Hope, Keep Safe, Life, Light, Love, Others, Soft Rain, Thought For the Day
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Jamestown Remembered
I had the opportunity as a child to live in Virginia for a time. There were three cities we visited in some sort of historical triangle: Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown. It would not be wrong to believe that viewing … Continue reading
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Tagged Birth, Born, Bounty, Colony, Crown, Dedication, Every Man, Fair, Free, Free Nation, History, Hundred Acres, Jamestown, Land, Majesty, New World, Old World, Opportunity, Perspiration, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remember, Rise, Sea, Tempest, Virginia, Virginia Company, Williamsburg, Yorktown
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Pandemic 2020
The days are dark but we will get through this. Pandemic 2020 by Michael Doyle Mass graves mark the passing through Of the last major outbreak of flu There are not moments relegated to history But a devastating part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Answer, Arc, Atheist, Breath, Bring, Clock, Computation, Contamination, Covoid 19, Cure, David, Day, Defy, Desperate, Devestate, Endure, Fail, Fataility, Fatal, Flaw, Flu, Global, Goliath, Hard, History, Hope, Human, Human Welfare, If, Immunity, Immunization, Incubation, Infinite, Knees, Life, Light, Mass Graves, Mistake, Moments, Monster, Mortality, Mutation, Mystery, Novel, One, Outbreak, Pandemic, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Pray, Rapid, Real, Research, Reveal, Rise, Risk, Say, Sling, Tick, Truth, Universal, Variation, Virus, Warfare, When, Worse
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