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Across Life’s Breeze
Across Life’s Breezeby Michael DoyleIt takes a fightTo find the victoryIt takes the lightTo build historyOur hands liftedUpward and highBelief unshiftedOur eyes are toward the skyFrom the crossTo the empty tombVictory from seeming lossBegan in Mary’s wombUndefeated in every hourHoliness … Continue reading
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Tagged Across, Belief, Breeze, Cross, Destination, Empty Tomb, Fight, Hands, History, Holiness, Hour, igh, Knees, Life, Life's Breeze, Light, Mary's Womb, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Power, Seeming Loss, Sky, Sought, Toughest Battles, Truth, Undefeated, Victory, Whispered
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Thought For the Day: The US Constitution Is the Strongest Guarantor of Freedoms In History
“TRUTH. 1. God is real. 2. There are two genders. 3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels. 4. Reverse racism is racism. 5. An open border is no border. 6. Parents determine the education of their children. 7. The nuclear family … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Children, Education, Feedoms, Fossil Fuels, God, Governance, Greatest Form, Guarantor, History, Human Flourishing, Lifts, Mankind, No Border, Not Four, Nuclear Family, Open Border, Parents, People, Poverty, Racism, Real, Reverse Racism, Thought For the Day, Three Branches, Truth, Two Genders, U.S. Constitution, US Government, Vivek Ramaswamy
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First Principles: To Render Us Again One People Acting As One Nation Should Be the Object of Every Man Really A Patriot
“To render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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Tagged Every Man, First Principles, Harmony, Object, One Nation, One People, Patriot, Render, Thomas Jefferson
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Selective Slackerism
Selective Slackerismby Michael DoyleWhen every word that has been written and readAnd when every loss has been found in things saidIt comes down to something less than intellectualBetween the discipline and the passing ineffectualWins and losses are shared within life’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbitrary, Challenges, Characteristic, Condescension, Discipline, Every Word, Fair Share, Inattention, Ineffectual, Intellectual, Loss, Mundane, Passing Regrets, Poetry and Poems, Primary, Process, Qwichanist, Satisfaction, Selective, Slackerism, Sloth, Stigma, Success, Tasks, Things Said, Wins and Losses
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Thought for the Day: Like A City Whose Walls Are Broken Down Is A Man Who Lacks Self-Control
“Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control.” – Proverbs 25:28 (New International Version)
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Tagged Broken, City, Down, Lack, Man, Proverbs 25:28, Self-Control, Thought For the Day, Walls
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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 Duties, First Principles, John Adams, National Defense, One, Statesman
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Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave National Parkby Michael DoyleInto the mouth, we stand and peerSacred sandstone cap and biosphereFrom the Frozen Niagara to Fat Man’s MiseryMy family comes to observe your mysteryBatwings fly above the and blind shrimp belowThe endless dark is something … Continue reading
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Tagged Biosphere, Care, Fat Man's Misery, Frozen Niagara, Green River, Mammoth Cave National Park, Mouth, Observe, Poetry and Poems, Share
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Thought For the Day: When We Find Someone Whose Weirdness Is Compatible With Ours, We Join With Them and Fall Into Mutually Satisfying Weirdness – and Call It Love – True Love
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Compatible, Find Someone, Join, Life, Little Weird, Love, Mutal, Ours, Robert Fulghum, Satisfy, Thought For the Day, True Love, We, Weirdness
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First Principles: In Disquisitions of Every Kind There Are Certain Primary Truths, or First Principles, Upon Which All Subsequent Reasoning Must Depend
“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Depend, Disquisitions, Every Kind, First Principles, Primary Truths, Reasoning, Subsequent
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First Principles: Where There Is No Law, There Is No Liberty; and Nothing Deserves the Name of Law But That Which Is Certain and Universal In Its Operation
“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.” – Benjamin Rush (1788)
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 