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First Principles: If Men Were Angels, No Government Would Be Necessary
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Angels, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Men, Necessary
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Thought For the Day: Amateurs Sit and Wait For Inspiration, the Rest of Us Just Get Up and Go To Work
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King, novelist (b. 21 Sep 1947)
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Tagged Amateurs, Get Up, Inspiration, Rest of Us, Sit, Stephen King, Thought For the Day, Wait, Work
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Jeering At the Past
Jeering At the Pastby Michael DoyleToo often, society burns with fireForgetting virtue for forms of desireProgression is found in cinders burningAll of the lessons, we keep relearningBrigands scoff at things of the pastLaughing at those things that didn’t lastAnd believing … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts of Cruelty, Answer, Attitude, Believe, Brigands, Brings, Brutality, Burning, Burns, Cancer, Cinders, Common Mistakes, Confuse, Consume, Desire, Discarded Hopes, Dreams, Fire, Flesh, Foot, Forget, Guess, Heart, Intensity, Inventory, Jeer, Last, Laugh, Lessons, Love, Measure, Mettle, Mistakes, Out of Control, Passion, Past, Pedal, Piasnissimo, Poetry and Poems, Presnt, Progression, Regrets, Relearning, Scary Thing, Sensitivity, Society, Soul, Strenght, Subterfuge, Superiority, Time, Virtue, Wonder, World, Youth
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Thought For the Day: It Is Difficult To Get A Man To Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair, novelist and reformer (20 Sep 1878-1968)
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Tagged Difficult, Man, Not Understanding, Salary, Thought For the Day, Understand, Upton Sinclair
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First Principles: Of All the Dispositions and Habits Which Lead To Political Prosperity, Religion and Morality Are Indispensable Supports
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports.” – George Washington (1796)
Thoughts On A September Morn
Thoughts On A September Mornby Michael DoyleYou can feel it in the airA discernable sense of changeAs you take in the world with careAnd watch the leaves rearrangeSummer comes to its endAs Autumn starts to beginEven before leaves start to … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Apple Orchard, Autumn, Begin, Bicycle Rider, Blend, Blur, Call, Care, Change, Chili, Cider, Descend, End, Fall, Feel, Football Season, Fuzzy Memories, Glass, Halloween, Handy, Heaven, Hill, Kids, Leaves, Long Lost Friend, Ninth, Pick, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin's Cand, Rearrange, Reason, Scarecrows, School Year, Seasons, Sense, September Morn, Seven, Sky, Snuggles, Spices, Stove, Summer, Sun Sets, Sunflower, Thought, Thoughts, Trail, Treasure Trove, Treat, Tricks, World
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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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Tagged All the Members, Benjamin Rush, Certain, Community, First Principles, Name of Law, No Law, No Liberty, Nothing, Operation, Universal, Where
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Thought For the Day: Where Exactly Does It Come From, I’d Like To Know, This Ineradicable Attitude of Superiority Toward the Past?
“Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past. Is it from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Categorical, Clothes, Conviction, Critical, Exact, Feelings, Future, Hairstyles, Know Bettr, Known, Naive, Oksana Zabuzko, Past, Pedantic, People, Permissive, Same Time, Small Children, Superiority, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Treat
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On His Ground
On His Groundby Michael DoyleThe walls tumble downAt the roaring soundWith the victory crownWe plant our feet on His GroundGlorifying what we’ve foundIn the arms of Jesus aroundUs all, in His full gloryKnowing we are part of His full storyThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Amrs, Before All, Call, Fascination, Father, Found, Generation, Glorify, Glory, Heart, His Ground, Hold, Jesus, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Resound, Roaring Sound, Sacred Hearts, Salvation, Story, Tumble, Veneration, Victory Crown, Walls
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