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Thought For the Day: Freedom To Differ Is Not Limited To Things That Do Not Matter Much. That Would Be A Mere Shadow of Freedom.
“Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Differ, Freedom, Justice Robert H. Jackson, Limited, Matter, Right, Shadow, Substance, Test, Thought For the Day, Touch the Heart
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First Principles: There Is A Rank Due to the United States, Among Nations, Which Will Be Withheld, If Not Absolutely Lost, By the Reputation of Weakness
“There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.” – George Washington (1793)
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Tagged Absolutely Lost, Among Nations, First Principles, George Washington, Rank Due, Reputation, United States, Weakness, Withheld
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Na/GloPoWriMo #26: This Is Just To Play
Na/GloPoWriMo #26: This Is Just To Playby Michael Doyle (in nod to William Carlos Williams)As a mirrorTo this modernityI look aroundAt the visual syntaxSeen as it connectsIn this living roomTo say whichPragmatically Beyond the messCoveringThe roominessAsking that you forgive meFor … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond, Cold, Connects, Cover, Delicious, Forgive Me, Just To Play, Living Room, Look Around, Malicious, Mirror, Modernity, Na/GloPoWriMo, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatically, Revenge Served, Roominess, Say, Sweet, Visual Syntax
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First Principles: The Greatest Good We Can Do Our Country Is To Heal Its Party Divisions and Make Them One People
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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Tagged First Principles, Greatest Good, Heal, One People, Our Country, Party Divisions, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: The Learned Understand the Reason of Art; the Unlearned Feel the Pleasure
“The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.” – Quintilian
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Tagged Feel, Learned, Quintilian, Reason of Art, The Pleasure, Thought For the Day, Understand, Unlearned
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Na/GloPoWriMo #25 Pieces d’Occasion
Na/GloPoWriMo #25:Pieces d’Occasion by Michael DoyleEvery day has its celebrationWhen approached with fascinationGiven with grace and latitudeGrateful to be alive is not a platitudeIn a world spinning the right directionWith enough intimacy to make connectionTo know my daughters are alive … Continue reading
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Tagged :Pieces d'Occasion, Alive and Well, Approached, Bad Daddy Joke, Brought Back, Celebration, Changes, Cough, Every Day, Fascination, Good Enough and Sweet, Grace, Grateful To Be Alive, Grimaces, Ground, I Once Had, Intimacy, It Makes Her Sad, Latitude, Live, Make Connection, Make Our Way, Na/GloPoWriMo, Not A Platitude, Offer My Praise, Poetry and Poems, Quietly Choke, Right Direction, Sarcoidosis, Standing On Our Feet, Taken By Choice, Tell Her Yet Another, This Old Heart, To Know My Daughters, To Tell Their Tale, Today, Vaccination, Voice, We Are On This Side, World Spinning
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Thought For the Day: The Rain Begins With A Single Drop
“The rain begins with a single drop.” – Manal al-Sharif, human rights activist (b. 25 Apr 1979)
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Tagged Begin, Drop, Manal al-Sharif, Rain, Single, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: One Single Object Will Merit the Endless Gratitude of the Society: That of Restraining the Judges From Usurping Legislation
“One single object … [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Livingston, 1825
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Tagged Endless Gratitude, First Principles, Judges, Legislation, Merit, Restraining, Single Object, Society, Thomas Jefferson
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Na/GloPoWriMo #24: Perishable
Na/GloPoWriMo #24: Perishableby Michael DoylePerishable as a live plantShe insists but just can’tThere a perfect consolation in leafIts in its hiding manifestations of griefIn the soft shame of being seenEach of us fails our push at being human beingsPotted plants … Continue reading
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Tagged Call To me, Conservation, Cross, Dishonestly, Domination, Each of Us, Earth's Future, End of Nature, Fails, Fear, Fickleness, Form, Frail Ecology, Grief, Helpless Loss, Here, Hiding Manifestations, Human Beings, Humbled Isloation, Leaf, Little Wonder, Live Plant, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Observation, Perfect Consolation, Perishable, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Potted Plants, Push, Rooted, Sake of Man, Seen, She Insists, Soft Shame, Tending, Watering of Our Plants, We Can
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 