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Monthly Archives: July 2023
Thought For the Day: The Limits of Tyrants Are Prescribed By the Endurance of Those Whom They Suppress
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blows, Concede, Demand, Endurance, Frederick Douglass, Impose, Injustice, Limits, People, Power, Resist, Submit, Suppress, Thought For the Day, Tyrants, Words, Wrong
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First Principles: If Congress Can Do Whatever In Their Discretion Can Be Done By Money, …the Government Is No Longer A Limited One…But An Indefinite One
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” – James … Continue reading
Everything Made Easier
Everything Made Easierby Michael DoyleEverything is made easier with a breathAnd the touch of your handI look into your soul and find the depthThat has always helped me to understandIt’s there in our strength of connectionSeeing from your perspective forms … Continue reading
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Tagged Agree, Arms Open Wide, Bond, Breath, Connection, Depth, Easier, Every Sight, Everything, Feeling, Forgive, Heart, History, Love, Love Again, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Renewed, Respond, Selfless, Side, Soul, Soul's Revealing, Strength, Touch, True Affection, Understand, Your Eyes
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First Principles: Enlightened Statesmen Will Not Always Be At the Helm
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” – James Madison (1787)
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Tagged Adjust, Enlightened Statesmen, First Principles, Helm, Interests, James Madison, Say, Vain
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Mess Over Neatness
Mess Over Neatnessby Michael DoyleShall we live as Lucy or LinusAs a spreadsheet of plus and minusMinimalism can be said to be neatBut life as messy has this beatIt is a deep-seated emotional needThat a life well-lived is one freedFrom … Continue reading
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Tagged Clumsy, Clutter, Constraint, Emotional Need, Eventually, Family, Freed, Hassles, Life, Linus Pauling, Lucy, Mess, Messy, Minimalism, Neat, Neat-Freaks, Neatness, Paperweight, Personality, Plus and Minus, Poetry and Poems, Possessions, Restraint, Sentimentality, Spreadsheet, We Were Here, Well-Lived
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Thought For the Day: What Is It That Affectionate Parents Require of Their Children…? Only That They Would Be Wise and Virtuous, Benevolent and Kind
“What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.” – Abigail Adams, letter to John Quincy Adams, 1783
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Account, Affectionate, Anxiety, Benevolent, Care, Children, Kind, Parents, Thought For the Day, Toil, Virtuous, Wise
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First Principles: I Love the Man That Can Smile In Trouble, That Can Gather Strength From Distress, and Grow Brave By Reflection
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Conduct, Conscience, Death, Distress, First Principles, Frim, Grow Brave, Heart, Love, Mankind, No. 1, Principles, Reflection, Shrink, Small Minds, Smile, The Crisis, Thomas Paine
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Thought For the Day: The Influence of Each Human Being On Others In This Life Is A Kind of Immortality
“The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.” -John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the US (11 Jul 1767-1848)
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Tagged Each, Fires, Human Being, Immortality, Impossibilities, Influence, John Quincy Adams, Kind, Life, Mankind, Mission, Move, Others, Soul, Thought For the Day, Vanish
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 