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Thought For the Day: The Best People Possess A Feeling For Beauty, the Courage To Take Risks, the Discipline To Tell the Truth, the Capacity for Sacrifice
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway, author and … Continue reading
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First Principles: Rejoice Always, Pray Without Ceasing, Give Thanks In All Circumstances, For This Is the Will of God In Christ Jesus For You
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain … Continue reading
The Beginning of Wisdom
The Beginning of Wisdomby Michael DoyleIn the harvest of all that becomes the soulThere is so very little that is in our controlAsked if there was anything for me to declareHaunted chords hint that I am becoming self-awareLocked in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Best Days, Best Ways, Breaks, Change, Civility, Control, Critical Step, Declare, Graveyard, Habits, Harvest, Haunted Chords, Just Society, Know Myself, Laugh, Long Gone, Mindset, Personal Development, Personal Virtue, Poetry and Poems, Self-Aware, self-improvement, Soul, Substance, Think On, Thoughts and Habits, Wisdom
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Happy International Moon Day 2024
This is the day that the UN has set aside to celebrate the first moon landing. This year’s theme is “Illuminating the Shadows,” which aims to focus on the ongoing exploration and discoveries related to the Moon’s South Pole. Ever … Continue reading
First Principles: The Greatest Good We Can Do For Our Country Is To Heal Its Party Divisions and Make Them One People
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” -Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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Tagged Country, First Principles, Greatest Good, Heal, One People, Party Divisions, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Every Student Needs Someone Who Says, simply, “You Mean Something. You Count.”
“Every student needs someone who says, simply, “You mean something. You count.” – Tony Kushner, playwright (b. 16 Jul 1956)
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Somewhere In Between
Somewhere In Betweenby Michael DoyleThere in the review mirrorWere the lights of my errorNear the end of the driveFeeling more tired than aliveWas knowledge of my mistakeHitting the accelerator, not the brakeAs I did my best to make it homeAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Accelerator, Alive, Alone, Coin Toss, Drive, Error, Excuse, Feeling, Hom, Home Alive, Homeward Bound, In-between, Knowledge, Lights, Miles To Go, Mistake, Nine Hours, Poetry and Poems, Rearview Mirror, Somewhere, Tired, Traffic's Flow, Upper Peninsula
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Thought For the Day: A Generation Which Ignores History Has No Past and No Future
“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.” – Robert Heinlein
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Tagged Generation, History, Ignore, No Future, No Past, Robert Heinlein, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Natural Cure For An Ill-Administration, In A Popular Or Representative Constitution, Is A Change of Men
“The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
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