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Thought For the Day: Hear One Side and You Will Be In the Dark. Hear Both and All Will Be Clear
“Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.” – Lord Chesterfield
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Tagged Both, Clear, Dark, Hear, Lord Chesterfield, One Side, Thought For the Day
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Call Out To Love
Call Out To Loveby Michael DoyleIn a life lived with sanctimonyI somehow came to my testimonyBased on faith and healingThat moved beyond mere feelingInto knowing the true dealOf finding belief and knowing it realI reached out as if shownTo the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things, Belief, Beyond, Call Out, Days, Done, Faith and Healing, Father, Feeling, Focus, God, God's Ways, Healing, Heaven Above, His Good, Home, Known, Life, Love, Miracle, Name, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Real, Sanctimony, Shame, Shown, Simple Man, Son, Soul-Revealing, Spirit, Testimony, True Deal, Understood, Worked, Worship
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First Principles: Wherever the Real Power In Government Lies, There Is the Danger of Oppression
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Danger, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Oppression, Real Power, Wherever
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Thought For the Day: In A World of Fugitives, the Person Taking the Opposite Direction Will Appear To Run Away
“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.” – T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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Tagged Appear, Fugitive, Opposite Direction, Person, Run Away, T.S. Eliot, Thought For the Day, World
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For Me and You
For Me and Youby Michael DoyleNo one has really asked my adviceBut I’ve seen lightning strike twiceEveryone’s part is more than necessaryTo be heard is not something contraryWe need to speak out on what we’ve heardWe need to share what … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Alone, Behind, Believe, Better, Bridge, Broke My Heart, Build, Clock, Contrary, Cried, Cross, Do, Each Other, Faith and Love, Fates, Find, For Me and You, Gods, Hands, Heard, Heart, Home, Know, Lied, Lightning, Necessary, Need, New World, No One, Occur, Our Place, Part, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Share, Sigh, Speak, Through, Time, Together, True, Twice
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First Principles: If Freedom of Speech Is Taken Away, then Dumb and Silent We May Be Led, Like Sheep To the Slaughter
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
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Tagged Dumb, First Principles, Freedom, George Washington, Led, Sheep, Silent, Slaughter, Speech, Taken
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Thought For the Day: A Writer Needs Three Things, Experience, Observation, and Imagination, Any Two of Which, At Times Any One of Which, Can Supply the Lack of the Others
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” – William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)
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Tagged Experience, Imagination, Observation, Supply, Thought For the Day, Three Things, Times, Two, William Faulkner, Writer
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Like Leaves In Autumn
Like Leaves In Autumnby Michael DoyleA quintessential road trip brings to mindThat Autumn has come to leave Summer behindMany roads can be taken, traveling any wayTo capture the colors that make up our daysAutumn falls like leaves becoming flowersThere is … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, Baptismal Shower, Behind, Blanket, Breath, Breeze, Campire, Capture, Carved Smiles, Chill, Colors, Fall, Fall Winds, Flow, Flowers, Gift, Glow, Ground, Leaves, Life, Look, Mind, Mother Nature, Nature, Passing Hours, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin, Rake, Reverence, Road Trip, Shift, Sky, Slow, Squirrels and Chipmunks, Summer, Travel, Trees, Winds of Change, Winter
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First Principles: The Bible Contains the Most Profound Philosophy, the Most Perfect Morality, and the Most Refined Policy That Ever Was Conceived Upon Earth. It Is the Most Republican Book In the World
“The Bible contains the most profound Philosophy, the most perfect Morality, and the most refined Policy, that ever was conceived upon Earth. It is the most Republican Book in the World.” – John Adams, in a letter to Benjamin Rush … Continue reading
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