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Thought For the Day: Whoever It Was Who Searched the Heavens With A Telescope and Found No God Would Not Have Found the Human Mind If He Had Searched the Brain With A Microscope
“Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.” – George Santayana
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Tagged Brain, George Santayana, Heavens, Human Mind, Microscope, No God, Search, Telescope, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: If There Is A Form of Government, Whose Principles and Foundation Is A Virtue, Will Not Every Sober Man Acknowledge It Better Calculated To Promote the General Happiness Than Any Other Form
“If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?” – John Adams (1776)
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Tagged Acknowledge, First Principles, Form, Foundation, Genera Happiness, Government, John Adams, Principle, Sober Man, Virtue
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Just Learning My Faith’s Ways
Just Learning My Faith’s Waysby Michael DoyleJust learning, I managed my doubtsFinding out what God’s all aboutThere was so much to take inWhen I was looking to escape my sinsOf all the miracles, like the virgin birthIt challenges most for … Continue reading
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Tagged All About, Bible, Challenges, Christian Nation, Christianity, Disciples, Doubt, Faith, God, Incarnation, Jesus, Learn, Life's Tests, Margins, Miracle, Miracles Out of Nowhere, Pharisees, Poetry and Poems, Progress, Received, Reliable and Reachable, Ressurection, Risk, Sadducees, Sins, Take In, Trust, Undertake, Virgin Birth, Ways, Worth
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First Principles: God Made Him Who Had No Sin To Be Sin For Us, So That In Him We Might Become the Righteousness of God
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” – 2 Corinthians 5:21
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Tagged 2 Corinthians 5:21, First Principles, God, Him, Rightousness, Sin, Us
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Thought For the Day: For You Created My Inmost Being; You Knit Me Together In My Mother’s Womb. I Praise You Because I Am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” – Psalm 139:13-14
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Tagged Created, Fearfully and Wonderfully, Inmost Being, Knit, Know, Mother's Womb, Praise, Psalm 139:13-14, Thought For the Day, Together, Wonderful, Works
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Children of Our Sun
Children of Our Sunby Michael DoyleTonight, under the rise of the Cold MoonI realize another year has passed too soonAnd still, old truths bear the necessityOf being repeated with some incredulityDaily chaos brings particles of light That refract under the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beloved Nations, Best, Chaos, Children, Creation, Damnation, Done, Faceless Dead, Fearlessly, Fog of Lies, Freedom, Ghosts, Head, Heretic, Homage, Honesty, Individualism, Integrity, Known Facts, Light, Limits, Mind, Misinformation, Necessity, Night, Old Truths, Optimism, Orthodox, Particles, Passions, Poetry and Poems, Precision Clocks, Repeated, Selfish, Shards, Soon, Strain, Sun, The Cold Moon, Third Planet, Tonight, Truth, Tyranny, Vigorously, Year
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First Principles: War Is Not the Best Engine For Us To Resort To; Nature Has Given Us One In Our Commerce
“War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Engine, Commerce, First Principles, Instrument, Justice, Nations, Nature, Oblige, Properly Managed, Thomas Jefferson, War
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Thought For the Day: You Can Tell Whether A Man Is Clever By His Answers. You Can Tell Whether A Man Is Wise By His Questions
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” – Naguib Mahfouz, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1911-2006)
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Tagged Answer, Clever, Naguib Mahfouz, Question, Thought For the Day, Wise
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This Is Not True Victory
This Is Not True Victoryby Michael DoyleIn memory of Queen Lili‘uokalani I declare this is not a true victoryWhen back in the year of 1893The United States overthrew her monarchyDespite the wrongness of things doneShe did not choose the white … Continue reading
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Tagged 1893, A People and A Nation, Apology, Authority, Battle, Cleansing Way, Constitutional Sovereignty, Dennis Kanahele, Dignity, Federal Recognition, Free Hawai'i, Freedom, Guns, Homes, Hope, Hour, Islands, Kanaka Maoli, Legislation, Live, Manifest Destiny, Milatancy, Monarchy, Native Community, Notion, Overthrow, Person's Station, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Power, President McKinley, Queen Lili‘uokalani, Rerservation, Self-Determinatoin, Sins of Man, Survive, The People, Tourist Destination, Tribe, True Heart, True Victory, United States, Voices, Voices of God, Wrongness
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First Principles: Observe Good Faith and Justice Toward All Nations. Cultivate Peace and Harmony With All
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” – George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
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Tagged All Nations, Cultivate, Farewell Address (1796), First Principle, George Washington, Good Faith, Harmony, Justice, Observe, Peace
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 