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The Devils We Wish We Didn’t Know
The Devils We Wish We Didn’t Knowby Michael DoyleThe NCAAWas, and is, the DevilWe knew enough to knowA scam for payNever on the levelIt was for extra coinsNot for any college bowlGraveyard memoriesDedicated to familiesThat gave their allIn the name … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Broken Bones, Brothers, Champions, Character, Coin, College Bowl, Concussions, Cried, Dead, Dedicated, Devil, Died, Dies, Explanation, Fame, Family, Fifty Yard Line, Football, Fortune, Game, Graveyard, Head, Human Being, Jive, Know, Lies, Loan, Organization, Pay, Played, Poetry and Poems, Rode, Sake, Scam, Spirits, Tears, The NCAA, Ton of Bricks, Tragic, True, Unseen, Wish, Worth, Wounded Voice
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Thought For the Day: Everyone May Not Be Good, But There’s Something Good In Everyone. Never Judge Anyone Shortly Because Every Saint Has A Past and Every Sinner Has A Future
“Everyone may not be good, but there’s always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde
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Tagged Anyone, Every Saint, Everyone, Future, Good, Judge, Oscar Wilde, Past, Short, Sinner, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: No Mound of Parchment Can Be So Formed As To Stand Against the Sweeping Torrent of Boundless Ambition
“No mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.” – George Washington (1789)
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Tagged Ambition, Boundless, Corrupt, Current, First Principles, Form, George Washington, Morals, Mound, One Side, Parchment, Sap, Stand, Torrent
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The Path of Generosity
The Path of Generosityby Michael DoyleStanding on a mountain of epiphanyStill, wondering what might come for meThis is no moment of bumper-sticker fameSome of the things happening are a shameReaching out for all the unreachedBringing the resources so that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Bumper-Sticker, Chance, Christmas Spirit, Church, Circumstances, Connection, Darkness, Embrace, Epiphany, Fame, Feed, Fish and Loaves, Five Thousand, Forge, Generosity, Give, Gospel, Gratitude, In Light Of, Live, Mount Kilimanjaro, Nobility, Opportunity, Paralable, Path, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Promise, Reach, Resurrection, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Shame, Space, Speak, Spiritual Economy, The Lord, Tomorrow, Truth to Power, Unchurched, Understand, Unreached, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: The Higher We Soar the Smaller We Appear To Those Who Cannot Fly
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900)
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Tagged Appear, Fly, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, High, Small, Soar, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Give and It Shall Be Given Unto You; Good Measure, Pressed Down, and Shaken Together, and Running Over, Shall Men Give Into Your Bosom
“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.” – Luke 6:38 (NIV)
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Tagged Bosom, First Principles, Give, Given Unto You, Good Measure, Luke 6:38 (NIV), Men, Pressed Down, Running Over, Shaken Together, Shall
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Searching For Signals
Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Living, Blind, Bluff, Caught, Chemicals, Circle, Class, Clever Thought, Dadaism, Despair, Destination, Devil, Dialog, Enough, Far, Feeling, Fog, Found, Hint, History, Identity, Life, Lyrical, Make, Meaning, Mess, Mind, Mistake, Mystery, Observation, Obsolescence, Optimism, Out of Control, Painting, Path, Poetry and Poems, Position, Possibility, Preconception, Reality, Saint, Save, Search, Self-Deception, Signals, Souls, Underground
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First Principles: Legislation Can Neither Be Wise Nor Just Which Seeks the Welfare of A Single Interest At the Expense and To the Injury of Many and Varied Interests
“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.” – Andrew Johnson
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Tagged Andrew Johnson, Expense, First Principles, Injury, Interests, Just, Legislation, Many, Neither, Seek, Single Interest, Varied, Welfare, Wise
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Thought For the Day: With Man This Is Impossible, But With God All Things Are Possible
“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” – Matthew 19:26 (New International Version)
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Tagged All Things, God, Impossible, Jesus, Man, Mankind, Matthew 19:26 (NIV), Possible, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Art Should Be Something That Liberates Your Soul, Provokes the Imagination and Encourages People To Go Further
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” – Keith Haring
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Tagged Art, Encourage, Further, Imagination, Keith Haring, Liberate, People, Provoke, Soul, Thought For the Day
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