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First Principles: The Natural Progress of Things Is For Liberty To Yield and Government To Gain Ground
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson (1788)
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Tagged First Principles, Gain Ground, Government, Liberty, Natural, Progress, Thomas Jefferson, Yield
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Thought For the Day: Perjury Is Often Bold and Open. It Is Truth That Is Shamefaced – As, Indeed, In Many Case Is No More Than Decent
“Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced – as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.” – Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
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Tagged Bold, Case, Charles Darling, Decent, Open, Perjury, Shamefaced, Thought For the Day, Truth
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The Bones of Rock-N-Roll
The Bones of Rock-N-Rollby Michael DoyleThe bones of rock-n-roll flowed through with authorityIn the American zeitgeist that Frank Zappa made legendarySpinning tales from hippies to yuppies in a vast conspiracyIt became tragically hipper as it grew to become legendaryHe was … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Avantagarde, Bawdiness, Blank-Eyed Habits, Bones, Brok, Cales, Conformity, Curnch, Encourage, Fee Speech, Flamboyant, Flimsy Values, Frank Zaapa, Frivolity, Funk Infected, Hipster Guile, Hues, Humor, Hypocrisy, Lady Justice, Lyricism, Melody, Morality, Musical Tales, Narrative, Naughtiness, Percision, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Rabbit-Hole, Reach, Reality, Rock-n-Roll, Satirize, Sleeping Woke, Smile, Society, Spotlight, Style, Surreal, Television, Truthful Comedy, Urban Scensters, Vibraphone, Whine, Wounded Coil, Zeitgeist
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First Principles: In All Very Numerous Assemblies, of Whatever Character Composed, Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Assemblies, Character, Fail, First Principles, James Madison, Numerous, Passion, Reason, Scepter, Wrest
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(Questions of Life) However Inspired
(Questions of Life) However Inspiredby Michael DoyleHowever it was inspiredLife came to be firedSparked a billion years agoAnd continued on in its flowThough no man was there Science believes it clearNeurons appeared 400,000 year agoBut who can truly know?From the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Days, Better Ways, Billion Years, Billion Years Ago, Brink, Brought Together, Courage, Darkness, Debate, Disbelief, Drink, Feeling the Fools, Fired, First Cause, Flashpoints, Flow, Formation, Full-Tilt, Gift, God, Handcuffed, Hands, Information, Inspired, Least Hesitation, Life, Losing Position, Lucy, Major Fail, Mature, Mother Nature, Near Miss, Necessary, Neurons, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Predators, Primordial, Question, Questions, Sad, Science, Smackdown, Splash, Stare, Think, Thought, Through, Time, Traction, Transition, Turned Out Better, Two Neurons, Warning, Wonder
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Capacity, Children, Courage, Cre, Creep, dd, Eelevate, Excel, Faculty, Family, First Principles, Grovel, Growth, Habitual Contempt, Industry, Infancy, Inhumanity, John Adams, Life, Lives, Love, Meanness, Minds, Nature, Poetry, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: I Realize That Patriotism Is Not Enough. I Must Have No Hatred Or Bitterness Towards Anyone
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone”. -Edith Cavell, nurse and humanitarian (4 Dec 1865-1915)
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The Meekness of His Glory
The Meekness of His Gloryby Michael DoyleAs Emmanuel, He walked among usAs it was, simply becauseHe wanted humanity to rise to the gloryThat is the sum of the gospel storyJohn’s narrative came from a unique perspectiveTangible as a tale of … Continue reading
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Tagged Actus Purus, Change, Compassioin, Conception, Credibility, Doctrine of Incarnation, Emmanuel, Ethos, Express, Flesh, Freedom, Gospel Story, Heartstrings, His Glory, Humanity, Immeasurable, Immutable, Inspiration, John, Logos, Meekness, Mercy, Narrative, Pathos, Pattern, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Reason, Resurrection, Sages, Strength, Sum, Tangible, the Word, Tomb, Triune, Two Miracles, Unchanging, Womb
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Thought For the Day: Either Human Intelligence Ultimately Owes Its Origin To Mindless Matter, Or There Is A Creator
“Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter, or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.” – John Lennox
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Tagged Claim, Creator, Either, First, Human Intelligence, John Lennox, Mindless Matter, Origin, Owe, Prefer, Second, Some People, Strange, Their Intelligence, Thought For the Day
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 