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How, Then, Should I Live?
How Then Should I Live?by Michael DoyleI look around this world with troubles to seeAnd I wonder to myself how then should I be?There are troubles all around – enough to seeThe need is here everywhere for another way to … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: I Do Not Believe There Is A Problem In This Country Or the World Today Which Could Not Be Settled If Approached Through the Teaching of the Sermon On the Mount
“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.” – Harry S. Truman
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Tagged Approach, Believe, Country, Harry S. Truman, Problem, Sermon on the Mount, Settled, Teaching, Thought For the Day, Today, World
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First Principles: The Lord Will Guide You Always; He Will Satisfy Your Needs In A Sun-Scorched Land and Will Strengthen Your Frame
“The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” – Isaiah 58:11
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Tagged Always, Fail, First Principles, Frame, Garden, Guide, Isaiah 58:11, Spring, Strengthen, Sun-Scorched Land, The Lord, Waters, Your Needs
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Thought For the Day: Mistakes Are Always Forgivable, If One Has the Courage To Admit Them
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
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Tagged Admit, Bruce Lee, Courage, Forgivable, Mistakes, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: You Will Never Do Anything In This World Without Courage. It Is the Greatest Quality of the Mind Next To Honor
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
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Tagged Anything, Aristotle, Courage, First Principles, Greatest Quality, Honor, Mind, Never, World
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Reflections On the Aftertaste
Reflections On the Aftertasteby Michael DoyleIt was just one of those endless nightsI sat feasting on a garden of fried delightsTurning the channel to hear a bit of debateSurreally hoping to help decide the nation’s fateThere on the stage were … Continue reading
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Dig Our Way Out
Dig Our Way Outby Michael DoyleThere is no treaty we can signThat can reach for and defineThe reasons why I made a ghost of youThere is no explanation for what I doI hide my shame deep in the shadowsKeeping to … Continue reading
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Tagged Blank Pages, Cage, Deep, Define, Difference, Dig, End, Explanation, Friend, Ghost, Hard, Itch, Matter, Memories, No Honor, Original Sin, Places, Poetry and Poems, Price, Rage, Reach For, Reasons, Right, Shadow, Shame, Sign, Skin, Snake, Still Voice, Talk, Treaty, Truth, Verbal Punches, Way Out, Whisper
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Thought For the Day: All Things Are Possible Until They Are Proved Impossible – and Even the Impossible May Only Be So, As of Now
“All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.” – Pearl S. Buck
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First Principles: The Right To Freedom Being the Gift of God Almighty, It Is Not In the Power of Man To Alienate This Gift, and Voluntarily Become A Slave
“If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienate, Fear, First Principles, Fraud, Gift, Gift of God, Great End of Society, Law of Reason, Men, Mistake, Natural Right, Power of Man, Renounce, Renunciation, Right To Freedom, Samuel Adams, Slave, Terms, Volunteer
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Citizens: Me and You
Citizens: Me and Youby Michael DoyleI. This nation was born under the authorityBlessed into birth by God’s wise dignityAs one filled with freedom and libertyGiven to us, not by government, but God’s divinityWe, this republic, are born by providenceThat all … Continue reading
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