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First Principles: The Only Foundation For A Useful Education In A Republic Is To Laid In Religion. Without This There Can Be No Virtue
“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, First Principles, Foundation, Life, No Liberty, No Virtue, Object, Religion, Republic, Republican Government, Useful Education
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To Keep Growing
To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading
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Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong
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First Principles: I Am Well Aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, That It Will Cost Us To Maintain This Declaration, and Support and Defend These States
“You will think me transported with Enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all … Continue reading
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Tagged Aware, Cost, Declaration, Enthusiasm, First Principles, John Adams, States, Support and Defend, Toil and Blood, Treasure
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Thought For the Day: The Truth Is, Most of Us Discover Where We Are Headed When We Arrive
“The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.” – Bill Watterson
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Tagged Arrive, Bill Watterson, Discover, Headed, Thought For the Day, Truth, Us, Where
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Owed To America 2024
Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White
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First Principles: Let Every Nation Know, Whether It Wishes Us Well Or Ill, We Shall Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden, Meet Any Hardship, Support Any Friend, Oppose Any Foe, To Assure the Survival…of Liberty
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Burden, Every Nation, First Principles, Foe, Friend, Hardship, John F. Kennedy, Know, Liberty, Pay, Price, Success, Survival, Well Or Ill, Wish
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Thought For the Day: America Was Not Built On Fear. America Was Built On Courage, On Imagination and On Unbeatable Determination To Do the Job At Hand
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” – Harry S. Truman
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Tagged America, Built, Courage, Fear, Hand, Harry S. Truman, Imagination, Job, Thought For the Day, Unbeatable Determination
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Home Is Felt
Home Is Feltby Michael DoyleBanging on the walls of our spacesChecking the layout of our placesPopping the bottle of our cheerWe’ll find our way to make our thereThe there of our shared creature comfortLearning how we’ll fit and comportSpinning around … Continue reading
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Tagged Added Splashes, Blend, Bottle, Cheer, Clouds, Coming Together, Creature Comfort, Days Ahead, Done and Said, Dreams, Embraces, Explain, Felt, Filling Our Dreams, Fit, Fit and Comport, Flash, Forever, Forward, Grow, Heads, Home, Home Is Felt, Know, Layout, Life, Light, Live the Love, Memories, One Step At A Time, Peace, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pop, Precision, Proud, Real Life's Paces, Refine Our Graces, Shine On, Sigh, Simple Words, Spaces, Spinning Around, Sublime, Suddenly, There, Thinking Of, Together, Traces, True Love, Vision, Walls, Woman's Touch
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Thought For the Day: To Stop the Flow of Music Would Be Like the Stopping of Time Itself, Incredible and Inconceivable
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” -Aaron Copland
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Tagged Aaron Copland, Flow, Inconceivable, Incredible, Music, Stop, Stopping, Thought For the Day, Time
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First Principles: The Great Desiderata Are A Free Representation and Mutual Checks. When These Are Obtained, All Our Apprehensions of the Extent of Powers Are Unjust and Imaginary
“The great desiderata are a free representation and mutual checks. When these are obtained, all our apprehensions of the extent of powers are unjust and imaginary.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 