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Monthly Archives: March 2021
First Principles: Wisdom and Good Examples Are Necessary At This Time To Rescue the Political Machine From the Impending Storm
“Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.” – George Washington (1786)
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Tagged At This Time, Examples, First Principles, George Washington, Good, Impending Storm, Necessary, Political Machine, Rescue, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Anyone Who Wishes To Become A Good Writer Should Endeavor, Before He (Or She) Allows Himself/Herself To Be Tempted By the More Showy Qualities, To Be Direct, Simple, Brief, Vigorous and Lucid
“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.” – H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933)
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Tagged Allow Self, Anyone, Brief, Direct, Endeavor, Good Writer, H.W. Fowler, Lucid, Showy Qualities, Simple, Tempted, Thought For the Day, Vigorous, Wish
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Thought For the Day: Memo To Social Justice Warriors: When What You’re Doing Sounds Like An Onion Headline, Stop
“Liberals need a Stand Your Ground law … for cancel culture. So that when the woke mob comes after you for some ridiculous offense, you’ll stand your ground, stop apologizing. Cancel culture is real, it’s insane, it’s growing exponentially, coming … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Maher, Cancel Culture, Cancel Culture Is Real, Growing Exponentially, Insane, Liberals, Memo, Neighborhood, Onion Headline, Ridiculous Offense, Social Justice Warriors, Stand Your Ground Law, Stop, Stop Apologizing, Thought For the Day, Woke Mob
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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom of Speech
“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” -Benjamin Franklin (1722)
A Little Bit of Empathy
A Little Bit of Empathyby Michael DoyleThe relationship is about youAnd then again, it’s about meIt’s about our step into divinityDo we love our God flawlessly?It’s about the work yet to be doneIt’s about God’s love poured out to everyoneLet’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 Years, About Me, Accursed Grief, Advances, All of the Others, All That Is Holy, Allowing God, Another Great Awakening, Awaken, Back, Belief's Beauty, Calamites, Decline, Divinity, Empathy, Encouragement, Family, Felt, Find, Find Our Salvation, Finding Our Way Back, Flawlessly, From Bondage and Back, From Its Perversion, God, God's Voice, God's Love, Good Book, Gospel, Grow, Humble Ourselves, Interdependent, Is Needed, Keeping True, Lack, Life Dealt, Little Bit, Live Holy, Lives' Conversion, Losing Our Liberty, Loss, Loss of God, Love Our God, Meeting Together, Necessary Decision, No Longer Drowning, Not Strife, Our Step, Passion, Peace of Love, Poetry and Poems, Poured out, Pray, Prayer, Public Display, Pushed Out of Our History, Relationship, Restore, Revive, Sacred Community, Sacred Duty, Sanctity, Save Our Society, Save the Nation, Sea of Apathy, Seeking God's Love, Serve In Our Belief, Serving, Sisters and Brothers, Step Forward, Stripped, Technology, The Church, Theology, There Is No Liberty, Thrive, Toward, True Revival, Truly Heeded, Two Hundred Years, Waters of Our Life, What We Need, When We Look, Without God's Laws, Work, Yet To Be Done, You
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Thought For the Day: A Word Is Not A Crystal, Transparent and Unchanging; It Is the Skin of Living Thought and Changes From Day To Day As Does the Air Around US
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (8 Mar 1841-1935)
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Tagged A Word, Around Us, Changes, Crystal, Day To Day, Living Thought, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Skin, The Air, Thought For the Day, Transparent, Unchanging
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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality, Suffocates the Germ of Virtue, and Prepares Fit Tools for the Designs of Ambition
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Ambition, Dependence, Designs, First Principles, Germ of Virtue, Subservience, Suffocates, Thomas Jefferson, Venality
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First Principles: Who Is John Galt? We Are John Galt!
“In planning, forming, and arranging laws, deliberation is always becoming, and always useful.” -James Wilson (1791) Today’s First Principles will be slightly different than usual. I will encourage that you think on what the Father of American Law has stated … Continue reading
Echoes of A Dolphin’s Life
Echoes of A Dolphin’s Lifeby Michael DoyleSynchronized sleepingFrom danger keepingHalf brained and one eyedThe pod keeps from being surprisedFollowing the secrets of mysteryA familiar echo explores the seaAs a whale’s song is heard in the distanceAnd against curiosity, there is … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Beholder, Bold, Curiosity, Danger, Distance, Dolphin's Life, Echoes, Echolocation, Humpbacked, Hunger Calls, Impossible to Ignore, Majestic, Mother's Tone, Mystery, No Resistance, Ocean Floor, One Eyed, Poetry and Poems, Razor Fish, Romance, Safety By Numbers, Sea, Secrets, Security, Sleeping, Suitable, Surprised, Synchronized, The Pod, Whale's Song
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