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Living At Our Recall
Living At Our Recallby Michael DoyleAll around the world of praiseThe hands of glory lift and raiseSouls filled with challenges metHave no time or need for regretServing our part in the gloryDoing our best to live by the storyIn looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Challenges, Glory, Hands, Jesus, Journey, Living, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Recall, Souls, Story
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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Being Susceptible of Very Different Glosses, Beget In the Mind A Distrust of Itself
“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Contagious, Distrust, First Principles, Gloss, James Madison, Mind, Nothing, Opinion, Questions, Susceptible
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Thought For the Day: Nobody Has Ever Measured, Not Even Poets, How Much the Human Heart Can Hold
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist (24 Jul 1900-1948)
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Tagged Hold, Human Heart, Measure, Much, Nobody, Poets, Thought For the Day, Zelda Fitzgerald
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Thought For the Day: Words, When Written, Crystallize History; Their Very Structure Gives Permanence To the Unchangeable Past
“Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past.” – Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
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Tagged Francis Bacon, History, Permanence, Structure, Thought For the Day, Unchangeable Past, Words, Written
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First Principles: We Ought To Consider What Is the End of Government Before We Determine Which Is the Best Form
“We ought to consider what is the end of government before we determine which is the best form. Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Form, Consider, Determine, End of Government, First Principles, John Adams, Thoughts On Government
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What It Takes To Be A New Yorker
What It Takes To Be A New Yorkerby Michael DoyleIt used to be that all it took was a remembranceOf what used to be and now is turned into encumbranceSummoning a piece of the city that used to existWhen what … Continue reading
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Tagged Amnesia, Asps, Battle, Cynicism, Dawn, Encumbrance, Epiphany, Exist, Fate, Final End Date, Grief, Heartbreak, Living Legacy, Memory, Mourning, New Yorker, New Yorkers, Pandemic, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Remembrance, Skyline, Street, Takes, Tomorrow, Twin Towers, Warning, Whispers
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First Principles: We Lay It Down As A Fundamental, That Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; That, Without This, They Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct, Founded In Force, and Not In Conscience
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience” – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: There Are Basically Two Types of People. People Who Accomplish Things, and People Who Claim To Have Accomplished Things. The First Group Is Less Crowded.
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” – Mark Twain
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Tagged Accomplish, Basic, Claim, First Group, Less Crowded, Mark Twain, People, Thought For the Day, Two Types
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Thought For the Day: The False Theory of Progress Maintains That We Alter the Test Instead of Trying To Pass the Test
“The false theory of progress maintains that we alter the test instead of trying to pass the test.” – G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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Tagged Alter, False Theory, G.K. Chesterton, Maintain, Pass, Progress, Test, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respected. No Man Is Safe In His Opinions, His Person, His Faculties, Or His Possessions
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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Tagged Duly Respected, Excess of Power, Faculties, First Principles, James Madison, No Man, Opinions, Person, Possessions, Prevail, Property, Safe
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 