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Thought For the Day: When One Person Is Missing the Whole World Seems Empty
“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” – Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
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First Principles: In Disquisitions of Every Kind There Are Certain Primary Truths, Or First Principles, Upon Which All Subsequent Reasoning Must Depend
“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 31 (1788)
Thought For the Day: Not What We Experience, But How We Perceive What We Experience, Determines Our Fate
“Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.” – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Moments Like John Muir
Moments Like John Muirby Michael DoyleSometimes, the city’s too many facesIt makes me dream of faraway placesWhere my heart can fade into the nightTraces of beauty replace blinding lightTimes in the wilderness are best for meSometimes, it’s a matter of … Continue reading
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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit, and Intelligence of the Citizens. They Fail, When the Wise Are Banished From the Public Councils
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Banished, Citizens, Fail, First Principles, Intelligence, Joseph Story, Public Councils, Public Spirit, Republics, Virtue, Wise
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Greatness Where There Is Not Simplicity, Goodness, and Truth
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth”. – Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (9 Sep 1828-1910)
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A Memory of Losses
A Memory of Lossesby Michael DoyleEven a cursory read of the Hadith findsIt is enjoined to treat others kindTo never kill unless it is necessaryThe death of even one requires a necessityTo save even one is to save all of … Continue reading
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The Loss of His Voice
The Loss of His Voiceby Michael DoyleThinking on this, I must confessThe icon’s death has left a messLike Poitier and Belafonte goodJames Earl Jones rose above HollywoodWith the loss of a singular voiceBlack and white Hollywood became lessThough lives end … Continue reading
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First Principles: There Is Danger From All Men. The Only Maxim of A Free Government Ought To Be To Trust No Man Living With Power to Endanger Public Liberty
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” – John Adams
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