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Thought For the Day: Bad Officials Are The Ones Elected By Good Citizens Who Do Not Vote
“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.” – George Jean Nathan
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First Principles: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship With All Nations, Entangling Alliances With None
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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It’s There In A Song Somewhere
It’s There In A Song Somewhereby Michael DoyleYou can find it in the record-spinning roundThere in the melody is where it is foundListen carefully to the words of the songYou’ll find the truth of our love where it belongsWhere this … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Beauty, Become One, Belongs, Below, Bended Knee, Beside, Best Friend, Best Life, Bliss, Complete, Connection, Cure, Dream, Dreams, Expressed, Eyes Meet, Face, Floating In the Air, Flowers, Found, Garden, Hair, Implore, Lasting Trace, Love, Matching Stride, Meet, Melody, More, Never Become Undone, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Record, Roses, Same Direction, Shine, Side-By-Side, Silvery Moon, Smile, Somehow, Somewhere, Song, Strife, Sweet, Sweet Fragance, The Together of Happiness, Think, Thought, Time, Truth of Our Love, Two Hearts, Two Souls, Walk Through, Walk Together, Words, World
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First Principles: Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind…It Always Protects, Always Trusts, Always Hopes, Always Perseveres
“4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: You Know You’re In Love When You Can’t Fall Asleep Because Reality Is Finally Better Than Your Dreams
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
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No Victim of My Circumstances
No Victim of My Circumstancesby Michael DoyleOn the mountains, in the sun raysIt’s your name that I praiseIn the green valley far belowIt is all your creation, and I knowSharing what I know of your graceThese are you living ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Blood of Jesus Christ, Born, Cheer, Circumstances, Clear, Creation, Darkness, Days, Deeds, Embrace, Fear, Flow, Follow, Grace, Green Valley, Heart, Know, Lead, Light, Living Ways, Lord of My Life, Mountains, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Reins, Share, Source, Sun Rays, The God of Second Chances, Veins, Victim, Victory, World, Your Love, Your Name
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First Principles: Liberty Is Meaningless Where the Right To Utter One’s Thoughts and Opinions Has Ceased To Exist. That, of All Rights, Is the Dread of Tyrants
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dread, Exist, First Principles, Frederick Douglass, Liberty, Meaningless, Right, Thoughts and Opinions, Tyrants
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Thought For the Day: The Kind of Beauty I Want Most Is the Hard-To-Get Kind That Comes From Within – Strength, Courage, Dignity
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” – Ruby Dee
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Something Behind the Small Talk
Something Behind the Small Talkby Michael DoyleThere is something raw behind the front linesThere, we hide behind the showoffs and mimesLost in the awkwardness that blocks our conversationsWe stand aloof, hiding our secret sense of fascinationWe wish we could shape … Continue reading
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Tagged Aawkwardness, Aloof, Balk, Body Language, Compulsion, Conversation, Darkness, Expert, Fascination, Feeling Dead, Feels, Fractured Hope, Front Lines, Gods and Iolds, Harshness, Lost, Poetry and Poems, Raw, Read, Real, Revulsion, Running In Place, Showoffs and Mimes, Silent Desperation, Small Talk, Something, Stream
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First Principles: We the People Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congress and the Courts, Not To Overthrow the Constitution But To Overthrow the Men Who Pervert the Constitution
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln (The true story behind this attribution can be found here: … Continue reading
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 