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First Principles: You Cannot Help the Poor By Destroying the Rich. You Cannot Lift Up the Wage Earner By Pulling Down the Wage Payer
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Destroy, First Principles, Help, Lift, Poor, Pull Down, Rich, Wage Earners, Wage Payer
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Thought For the Day: No Man Means All He Says, and Yet Very Few Say All They Mean, For Words Are Slippery and Thought is Viscous
“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.” – Henry Adams
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Tagged Henry Adams, Mean, No Man, Say, Slippery, Thought, Thought For the Day, Very Few, Viscous, Words
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I’ll Meet You There
I’ll Meet You Thereby Michael DoyleSomewhere in hereIn the deep felt insideThere is cold fearThat has nowhere to hidePushed past mountains and woodsThe darkness comes as it shouldFighting against this is no goodThis is the truth that’s understoodWounded hearts always … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acknowledging Your Lies, Ancient Road, Ancient Wisdom, Anguish, Beg, Believed, Blackest Black, Bury, Coins, Cold Fear, Cold Wind, Darkness, Dead, Dececember, Die, Embrace, Error, Eyes, Face, Fat, Fight, Forever, Forget, Ghosts of Fear, Good, Goodbye, Goodness, Harshness, Hate, Heads, Heartbreaks, Heaven, Here, Hide, Hope, I'll Meet You There, Inside, Journey, Last Breath, Life Depends, Light, Live, Long, Lost, Love, Meet You There, Misconception, Moments of Life, Mountains and Woods, Mysteeries, Near, Never Coming Back, Night, Nowhere, Passage, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Remember, River Styx, Run Deep, Should, Silent, Sins, Snow, Somewhere, Soul, Soul Searching, Truth, Understood, Wait, Win, Wish, Word, Wounded Heart, Year's End
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Thought For the Day: In Questions of Science, the Authority of A Thousand Is Not Worth the Humble Reasoning of A Single Individual
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (15 Feb 1564-1642)
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Tagged Authority, Galileo Galilei, Humble, Question, Reason, Science, Single Individual, Thought For the Day, Thousand, Worth
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First Principles: Nothing Is More Certain Than That A General Profligacy and Corruption of Manners Make A People Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction.” – John Witherspoon (1776)
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Tagged Certain, Corruption, Destruction, First Principles, General Profligacy, John Witherspoon, manners, Nothing, People, Ripe
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Valentine’s Season
Valentine’s Seasonby Michael DoyleIn a circular society, there are seasonsSome of these devoid of sensible reasonsAs to why there is plenty or there is lessLove to be found, yet if I had to guessIt’s more worth quietly learning to resignAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, All of This, Alone, Anguish, Apartment Wall, Argument, Attention, Call, Capuccino, Chances, Circular Society, Complete, Constant Denial, Cry, Design, Devoid, Do Not Disturb Sign, Dream, Easy, Efforts, Evade, Failed To Say, Falling In Love, Father, Feelings, Find Her, Follow, Found, Four Course Dinner, Friends, Good Turn, Guess, Happiness and Joy, Human Condition, Journey, Learn, Less, Life, Loneliness, Love, Love Depends, Loveable, Manage, Mine, Miss, My Daughters, My Fault, Plenty, Poetry and Poems, Point, Prayer, Quiet Moments, Reasons, Reminder, Replete, Resign, Season, Seasons, Secret, Self-Sedition, Shadows, Silver Moonlight, Sip, Smile, Someone, Stone, Trip, Try, Tyle, Valentine, Wish
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First Principles: If You Would Be Loved, Love, and Be Loveable
“I You Would Be Loved, Love and Be Loveable.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Be Loveable, Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, If, Love, Loved, Would Be
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Happy Valentine’s Day To My Friends and Family!!
Aloha Promises Forever values and loves all of its friends, family, and readers! So does God! And so do I! Thank you all for being who you are regardless of the miles between. May your day be filled with love and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, Day, Family, Friends, God, Happy Valentin's Day, Joy, Love, Miles Between, Myself, Readers, Regardless, Thank you, Thought For the Day, Value
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Hiking Indiana State Parks – Central Plain – Mounds State Park
PLEASE KNOW THERE IS A FORMATTING ERROR THAT PERTAINS TO THE PHOTOS FROM MY CELL CAMERA. I WILL CONTACT THE WP HELP DESK TOMORROW MORNING TO FIND OUT WHAT’S GOING ON. FIVE ATTEMPTED FIXES IS ENOUGH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR … Continue reading
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Tagged 1819, Adena, Adults, Adventures, Archeological Digs, Awls, Bluff, Boardwalk, Borders, California, Canyons and Ravines, Central Plain, Ceremonial Mounds, Ceremonial Stone Pipe, Church, Civilization, Daughters, Eagle Creek Park, Earth Mother, Earthworks, Ecology, Embrace, Explore, Fall Creek, Farmland, Featureless, Fiddleback, Formalhault, Geology, Great Mound, Hike, hiking, Hills, History, Hoosier, Hopewell, Human Eyes, Human History, Impulse, Indiana, Indiana State Parks, Indianapolis, Indianapolis 500, John Muir, Lake Michigan, Lakes, Learn, Log Tomb, Loop Hike, Michigan River, Midwest and Southern Regions, Misconception, Mounds, Mounds State Park, Natural Treasures, Nature, Nature Preserve, Ohio River, Photographs & Memories, Pine Hills, Pottery Shards, Ramble, Region, Remnant, Rivers, Rolling Plains, Sandstone Despoits, Settler Home, Shades State Park, Steel Mills, Streams, Summer Solstice, Sun God, Sunday, Trails, Travel, Turkey Run State Park, VisitorCenter, Wabash River, White River, Widespread Culture, Woodland
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