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Thought For the Day: I Don’t Care If Monday’s Blue, Tuesday’s Gray and Wednesday Too. Thursday I Don’t Care About You, It’s Friday I’m In Love
“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesdays gray and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you, it’s Friday I’m in love.” – The Cure
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First Principles: The Eternal Difference Between Right and Wrong Does Not Fluctuate, It Is Immutable
“The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.” – Patrick Henry
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Investing In Old Age
Investing In Old Ageby Michael DoyleIt has become as sort of a jokeBut one that makes me slightly chokeThe youngest of chronological ageSays as if with the wisdom of a sageThat her dad, me, is growing a bit oldShe laughs … Continue reading
First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
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Thought For the Day: It Is Clear That Thought Is Not Free If the Profession of Certain Opinions Make It Impossible To Earn A Living
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living.” – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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Into Something More
Into Something Moreby Michael DoyleStrive and fight for a better lifeFinding believed in utopia was naughtBut disappointment with hints of strifeIdeals purchased with bloodied tears soughtOnly to find these too lacking in the endAnd while life goes on, we cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Ancient, Beauty, Better Life, Cancer, Change, Comic Opera, Connection, Correction, Darkness, Disappointment, Dripping Poison, End, Faith, Flittering By, Follies, Foreign Shore, Full Circle, Gain, Grasp, Happiness, Hear, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Jaded, Judgment, Lack, Life Goes On, Light, Lives, Mercy, Mirror, Passing By, Penitent, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Prayers, Prevail, Purity of Reason, Pursuits, Repent, Right, Season, Society, Something More, Sought, Storied Legacy, Strange, Strife, Suffering, Tale, Trend, True, Trust, Utopia, Views, Voices, Yesterday
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Thought of the Day: If Liberty Means Anything At All, It Means the Right To Tell People What They Do Not Want To Hear
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” —George Orwell (1903-1950)ople what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell (1903-1950)
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First Principles: In A Society Under the Forms of Which the Stronger Faction Can Readily Unite and Oppress the Weaker, Anarchy May As Truly Be Said To Reign As In A State of Nature
“In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.” – James Madison (1788)
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Thought For the Day: We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence Then, Is Not An Act, But A Habit
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
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First Principles: Liberty..Justly Understood Is Sacred
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the … Continue reading
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 