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Thought For the Day: When A Poor Person Dies From Hunger…(I)t Has Happened Because Neither You Nor I Wanted To Give That Person What He Or She Needed
“When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Care, Die, Give, God, Happen, Him or Her, Hunger, Mother Teresa, Needed, Person, Poor Person, Thought For the Day, Want
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A Father’s Fight
A Father’s Fightby Michael DoyleI may be stupidBut I’m never dumbI might even beSmarter than someThere are times I’m afraidAnd other times, braveTo Hell with the plans they’ve madeIt’s my America that I fight to saveI am part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Always, America, Brave, Class, Days of My Youth, Dumb, Fate, Father, Fight, Grass, Great, Hell, Hill to Hill, Integrity, Justice, Known, Liberty, Love of Righteousness, Made, Nation, Patience, Persistance, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Resistance, Save, Smarter, Some, Stand, Stupid, Sweet Freedom, Time, Trees, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Knowing Trees, I Understand the Meaning of Patience. Knowing Grass, I Can Appreciate Persistence
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” -Hal Borland, author and journalist (14 May 1900-1978)
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Tagged Appreciate, Grass, Hal Borland, Know, Meaning, Patience, Persistence, Thought For the Day, Trees, Understand
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Big Sur
Big Surby Michael DoyleThinking back under Indiana’s rainMemories of a life spent in refrainWhere too much was never quite enoughAnd jokers begged a thief to call his bluffI remember back to when weeks were doneWe’d pack the car to drive … Continue reading
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Tagged Away, Beach, Believe, Big Sur, Bixby Bridge, Bluff, California, Chapparal, Closed, Conceive, Condor, Current, Days, Driving, Earth, Enought, Footpaths, Freedom, Glide, Greenery, Happy Songs, Heaven, Highway One, Home, Indiana Rain, Jade Cove, Joy, Leave, Ledge, Life Spent, Life's Answers, McWay Falls, Mirth, Nature's Child, Oak, Poetry and Poems, Push and Pull, Reach, Redwood, Refrain, Scenery, Secrets, Smile, Soar, Soft Rain, Sunshine, Tear, Tide, Times, Topple, Trails, Unveiled, Ventana, Week, Wild, World's Edge
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Thought For the Day: The Eye of the Understanding Is Like the Eye of the Sense….You May See Great Axioms of Nature Through Small and Contemptible Instances
“The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.” -Francis Bacon, essayist, … Continue reading
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Tagged Crannies, Eye, Francis Bacon, Great Axioms, Instances, Nature, Objects, See, Sense, Small, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader; To Pursue Them Requires Not the Aid of Many Counselors
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Counselors, First Principles, Great Principles, Legible, Pursue, Reader, Right and Wrong, Thomas Jefferson
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The Spaces Between
The Spaces Betweenby Michael DoyleIn all the paradigms that are shiftedThe moral compasses that have driftedThe zeros, the ones, and those in-betweenAfford the perfected moments as human beingsWould it only be that all things of clarityWere as equal and equitable … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Between, Biology, Clairty, Dignity, Distortions, Drfit, Eggs and Chickens, Emprical, Endurance, Equal, Equitable, Face, Flashpoints of Ideology, Full Opportunity, Gap, Gender Biology, God, Homones, Human Beings, In-between, Inherent Advantages, Integrity, Limits of Biology, Male and Female, Moral Compasses, Occurrence, Paradigm, Performance Ceilings, Poetry and Poems, Political Identity, Political Will, Potential, Power, Puberty, Questions, Resources, Scientific Credential, Self-Righteous Feelings, Shift, Sincerity, Skill, Space, Spaces, Speed, Strategy, Tale, Test, Testosterone, Trajectory, Wholistic, Wome, Wrong-Minded Ideology, Youth, Zenith
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Thought For the Day: As A General Truth, Communities Prosper and Flourish…In Just the Degree That They Practice…the Primary Duties of Justice and Humanity
“As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity.” – William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, Governor, and Senator … Continue reading
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Tagged Communities, Degree, Flourish, General Truth, Humanity, Justice, Pracice, Primary Duties, Prosper, Thought For the Day, William Henry Seward
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First Principles: National Defense Is One of the Cardinal Duties of A Statesman
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815)
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Tagged Cardinal, Defense, Duty, First Principles, John Adams, National, Statesman
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