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Thought For the Day: You Have Reached the Pinnacle of Success As Soon As You Become Uninterested In Money, Compliments, or Publicity
“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” – Thomas Wolfe
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Tagged Compliments, Money, Pinnacle, Publicity, Reach, Success, Thomas Wolfe, Thought For the Day, Uninteresed
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It Hardly Counted
It Hardly Counted by Michael DoyleIn all my time in the dreadful warI felt certain of something moreA lot of horrible things occurredLooking back they’ve all blurredThese horrors handled with graceAre the worst, most of us faceTo know that man’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Amount, Blur, Certain, Conflict, Cost, Count, Desipte, Die, Effort, Empty Hero, Endure, Eyes, Face, Feeling, Friends, Grace, Hell, Horror, Hurt Full, In the End, Inflict, Less Than Zero, Lifetime, Man's Inhumanity To Man, Memory, Mirror, More, Needed, Occur, Others, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Rhyme, Shell, Time, Trouble, Truth, War, Why
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First Principles: The First Transactions of A Nation, Like Those of an Individual Upon His First Entrance Into Life Make the Deepest Impression, and Are To Form the Leading Traits In Its Character
“The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.” – George Washington (1788)
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Tagged Character, Deepest Impression, Entrance, First Principles, First Transactions, Form, George Washington, Individual, Leading Traits, Life, Nation
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Thought For the Day: Things Which Do Not Grow and Change Are Dead Things
“Things which do not grow and change are dead things.” – Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota
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Danza Pieta
Danza Pieta by Michael DoyleNoisome crypts jangle the bones of innocenceWhere evil lingers knowing no pretenseOrgan music begins to play in its tonal rangeSomething wicked and something strangeParanoia, whispered fears, and shades of doubtEcho like unfriendly notes raised into a … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Death, Bones, Cause, Crypt, Danza Pieta, Death, Echo, Evil, Fragility, Imagery, Innocence, Insensibility, Memento Mori, Momento Mori, Organ Music, Paramoia, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Sacred, Sensuality, Stoicism, Terror, Tonal Range, Unfriendly Notes, Vain, Wicked
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First Principles: It Is In the Interest of Tyrants To Reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice. For They Cannot Live In Any Country Where Virtue and Knowledge Prevail
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.“ – Samuel Adams
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Tagged Country, First Principles, Ignorance, Interest, Knowledge, Live, Reduce, Samuel Adams, The People, Tyrants, Vice, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: No Fathers Or Mothers Think Their Own Children Ugly; and This Self-Deceit Is Yet Stronger With Respect To the Offspring of the Mind
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.” – Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (29 Sep 1547-1616)
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First Principles: There Are More Quarrels Smothered By Just Shutting Your Mouth, and Holding It Shut, Than By All the Wisdom In the World
“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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Thought For the Day: It Is What You Read When You Don’t Have To That Determines What You Will Be When You Can’t Help It
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”― Oscar Wilde
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 
The Influence of Pulp Fiction
The Influence of Pulp Fictionby Michael DoyleScience fiction without a snarkDidn’t just materialize out of the darkIn 1926, Hugo Gernsback, without a lot of gloryCame to publish the first Amazing StoriesFrom the cover of this first, we might knowThe Hugo … Continue reading →