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Monthly Archives: November 2021
Thought For the Day: If Knowledge Can Create Problems, It Is Not Through Ignorance That We Can Solve Them
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” – Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
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First Principles: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuses of Government, Ambition, Constitutional, Control, Counteract, Devices, First Principles, Human Nature, Interest, James Madison, Mankind, Reflection
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Starting Each Day In Devotion
Starting Each Day In Devotionby Michael Doyle Starting every day the right wayBrings about a good sort of dayKnowing that wherever we goGod follows us as if our best shadow No matter what comes as we scatterOur attention to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adore, Ahead of the Game, Attention, Awaken, Best Human Being, Busyness, Challenges, Choice, Day, Declare, Deliberate, Devotion, Empower, Father, God, Holy Ghost, Hope, Live, Love, Morning, Music and Praise, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Presence, Scatter, Shadow, Shatter, Significance, Start, Surrender, The Lord, The Son, Voice, Worship
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Thought For the Day: Let the World Know You As You Are, Not As You Think You Should Be, Because Sooner Or Later, If You Are Posing, You Will Forget the Pose, and Then Where Are You?
“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?” -Fanny Brice, entertainer (29 Oct 1891-1951)
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First Principles: The Battle, Sir, Is Not To the Strong Alone; It Is To the Vigilant, the Active, the Brave
“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” – Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, 1775
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Bumping Into Jesus
Bumping Into Jesusby Michael DoyleDivine encounters along the wayIt doesn’t necessarily happen on SundayLittle moments that teach usPut on as these are to reach usBumps on the road have their distractionThe way through gives the best tractionEach moment is given … Continue reading
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Tagged Bumping, Certain, Chance, Circumstance, Clarity, Conclusion, Confusing, Cross, Depart, Distraction, Divine, Divine Encounter, Experience, Faithfulness, Fragment, Glory, God's Hand, Goodness, Heart, Horrify, Hour, Insecurity, Invasion, Invitation, Jesus, Light, Little Moments, Ordinary, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Promised Land, Purity, Reach, Story, Sunday, Teach, Teaching Moment, Throne, Trace, Traction, Trust, Understand, Victory, View, Water, Wine
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First Principles: In Questions of Science, the Authority of A Thousand Is Not Worth the Humble Reasoning of A Single Individual
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
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Thought For the Day: Humanity Also Needs Dreamers
“Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they … Continue reading
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Line By Line
Line By Lineby Michael DoyleScripture being God breathedIs to save us from being deceivedEvery word is for our trainingAs toward righteousness we are headingRead the Bible in our trustPaying attention as we mustThe names listed provide genealogyTracing back to God … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Character, Deceive, Devine, Geneaology, God, Line By Line, Poetry and Poems, Righteousness, Scripture, Theology, Training, Word
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First Principles: The Natural Cure For an Ill-Administration, In A Popular or Representative Constitution, Is A Change of Men
“The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
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