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First Principles: The Question Is Not What Rights Naturally Belong To Man, But How They May Be Most Equally and Effectually Guarded In Society
“The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.” – Roger Sherman
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Tagged Effectual, Equal, First Principles, Guard, Man, Natural, Question, Rifghts, Roger Sherman, Society
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A Speculative Blush of History
A Speculative Blush of Historyby Michael DoyleIn part, science fiction involves mysteryOther times, speculation about historyWhat might have been or might well beHad things only turned out a bit differentlyAll the casual moments of interpretationOf events real and in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blush, Deduction, Depcition, Differently, Facts, Fictive, Historical Speculation, History, Imagination, Interpretation, Machination, Mystery, Observation, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Reconstrution, Science, Science Fiction, Speculative, Templates, Theory, War and Peace
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First Principles: Freedom of Speech Is A Principal Pillar of A Free Government: When This Support Is Taken Away, the Constitution of a Free Society Is Dissolved
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” – Benjamin Franklin, in The Pennsylvania Gazette
Thought For the Day: To Know and Love One Other Human Being Is the Root of All Wisdom
“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.” – Evelyn Waugh
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Raising Unnecessary Spirits
Raising Unnecessary Spiritsby Michael DoyleConsigned to a comedic sense of HellThere is a demon who laughingly dwellsHe makes his home in haunted house scareBeetlejuice is filled with tricks and daresTo call his own shots filled with this synergyIt recalls the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetic, Alone, Back Down, Beetlejuice, Best Telling, Charmingly Twited, Demon, Don't Do Over, Dwell, Eccentric Parts, Half-Interest, Haunted House, Hell, Hollywood, Home, Imagination, Juice, Learn, Life Moves Forward, New Script, New Vision, Not New, Older Eyes, One Soul, Paralyzed, Pizzaz, Plot Line, Poetry and Poems, Profitable Return, Raise, Resume, Shake Loose, Shot, Spirit, Story, Stripped, Supernatural Complications, Synergy, Theory, Three-Ringed Energy, Unneccesary, View, Whole, Wise
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Faith Where Satan Lives
Faith Where Satan Livesby Michael DoyleThere are times of great expectationBut none so much as in RevelationEschatology teaches us, and we learnAll the things that we need to discernKnowing what is spoken is realHas the possibility of making our spine … Continue reading
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Tagged Apathy, Bible, Christianity, Cleave, Close To Home, Confess, Culture Drift, Discern, Eschatology, Eternity, Every Knee, Faith, Faithfulness, Final Test, Fleeced, Forgive, God, God Or A Madman, Great Expectation, Hidden Manna, Hostile Space, Jesus, League of His Own, Learn, Lies, Need, Omnipresent, Poetry and Poems, Point of No Return, Question, Read, Revelation, Righteousness, Satan, Shifts In Tone, Steel, Thread, Thrive, Times, Tongue, Traces, Urgency, Vanity, Where Satan Lives, Word of God
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Thought For the Day: Hold Faithfulness, and Sincerity As First Principles
“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.” – Confucius, The Analects
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First Principles: Whoever Has Ears, Let Them Hear What the Spirit Says To the Churches. To the One Who Is Victorious, I Will Give the Right To Eat From the Tree of Life
“Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.” – Revelation … Continue reading
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Tagged Church, Ears, First Principles, Heart, Paradise of God, Revelation 2:7, Right, The Spirit, Tree of Life, Victorious, Whoever
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First Principles: Labor To Keep Alive In Your Breast That Little Spark of Celestial Fire Called Conscience
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)
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Tagged Alive, Breast, Celestial Fire, Conscience, First Principles, George Washington, Labor, Spark
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