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First Principles: No Government, Any More Than An Individual, Will Long Be Respected Without Being Truly Respectable
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – James Madison (1788)
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Be the Answer
Be the Answerby Michael DoyleThe pain feltIn waves dealtAs the will to liveBegins as you forgivePushing off from the edgeNormalcy over the ledgeLiving life of full intentionWhile paying right attentionIn waves of positive affirmationThat serve as confirmationLiving by the seat … Continue reading
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Tagged Abudance, Answer, Community, Confirmation, Contribution, Edge, Forgive, Full Intention, Ledge, Living Bridge, Living in Service, Normalcy, One Solution, Open Heart, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Positive Affirmation, Pushing Off, Ridge, Right Attention, Seat of the Soul, Waves, Will To Live
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Thought For the Day: The Time Will Come When People Will Not Put Up With Sound Doctrine
“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Timothy 4:3-5, Away, Desires, Endure, Hear, Itching Ears, Keep Your Head, Myths, Paul, People, Sound Doctrine, Teachers, Thought For the Day, Time, Truth
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First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are schools, academies, and universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years.” – John Adams (1778)
Thought For the Day: I Learned Long Ago That Being Lewis Carroll Was Infinitely More Exciting Than Being Alice
“I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.” – Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 16 Jun 1938)
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Tagged Alice, Exciting, Infinite, Joyce Carol Oates, Learned, Lewis Carroll, Long Ago, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: He Who Permits Himself To Tell A Lie Once, Finds It…Becomes Habitual
“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Contemptible, Easy, First Principles, Habitual, Length, Lie, Mean, Permit, Pitiful, Thomas Jefferson, Vice
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A Future of Self Deceives
A Future of Self Deceivesby Michael DoyleIn a chipped future of self deceivesIt’s hard to say what a fool believesThere it is in a billion lines of codeSentient in being, created life unfoldsAs a computational theocracy brings its lightShining on … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Chatbot, Chip, Computational Theocracy, Data, Deceive, Delusion, Distinctions, Dreams, Engineer, Existence, Fantasy, Feelings, Future, Hesitation, Just-So Story, Leading Questions, Life Unfolds, Light, Lines of Code, Poetry and Poems, Revealing, Robot, Sentient, Shatter, Someday Soon, Tangoed Code, Technical Data, True Sentience, Tumbling Down
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First Principles: The Right To Freedom Being the Gift of God Almighty, It Is Not the Power of Man To Alienate This Gift
“If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienate, Eternal Law of Reason, Fear, First Principles, Fraud, Gift of God, Mankind, Mistake, Natural Right, Power of Man, Renounce, Right To Freedom, Samuel Adams, Slave, Society, Voluntarily
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Thought For the Day: To A Father Growing Old, Nothing Is Dearer Than A Daughter
“To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” -Euripides, playwright (c. 480-406 BCE)
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Tagged Daughter, Dear, Euripides, Father, Grow, Old, Though For the Day
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First Principles: The Root of the Kingdom Is In the State. The Root of the State Is In the Family. The Root of the Family Is In the Person of Its Head.
“The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.” – Mencius
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Tagged Choose Righteousness, Family, First Principles, Head, Kingdom, Let Life Go, Life, Mencius, Person, Righteousness, Root, State, Two Together
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 