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Avarice and Vice
Avarice and Viceby Michael DoyleIn this workaday world, we barely muddle throughWe worry about our own lives more than justice dueOur duty is more toward the good of our own familyThan to worry about every nuance of societyIf another man … Continue reading
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Tagged Avarice and Vice, Choice, Constructs, Define, Destruct, Duty, Family, Fate, Fathers Kingdom, Guilt and Innocence, Guilty Place, Hang, Hell On Earth, Justice, Lives, Love or Hate, Magnify, Mercy, Muddled Grace, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Price, Purpose, Refine, Reflect, Society, Surface, The Good, Truth, Veneer, Vise, Voice, Workaday World
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Thought For the Day: There Comes A Point When A Man Must Refuse To Answer To His Leader If He Is Also To Answer To His Own Conscience
“There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.” – Hartley William Shawcross
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Tagged Answer, Conscience, Hartley William Shawcross, Leader, Mankind, Point, Refuse To Answer, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Multiplication of Public Officers, Increase of Expense Beyond Income, Growth and Entailment of a Public Debt, Are Indications Soliciting the Employment of the Pruning Knife
“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.” – Thomas Jefferson (1821)
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Tagged Expense, First Principles, Growth, Income, Indication, Multiplication, Pruning Knife, Public Debt, Public Officers, Solicit, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: You Are Not Judged By the Height You Have Risen, But From the Depth You Have Climbed
“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.” – Frederick Douglass
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Tagged Climbed, Depth, Frederick Douglass, Height, Judge, Risen, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As The Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives
“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.” – Ulysses S. Grant
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Tagged First Pricniples, Heart, Liberties, Lives, Practice, Precepts, Sheet-Anchor, The Bible, Ulysses S. Grant
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Shifting Through the Ashes
Shifting Through the Ashesby Michael DoyleStanding here talking close togetherYou say it’s for worse or for betterShifting through the ashes of an argumentCan you tell me, baby, where the money’s spent?You laugh and concede it as a steady needWaiting for … Continue reading
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Tagged Above the Skies, Alone, Angels of Fortune, Ashes, Ashes of An Argument, Beauty, Better, Bitterness, Child, Child of the sun, Collide, Conceal, Concede, Connect, Constellations, Danger, Doom, Drink, Echo, Emptiness, Eyes, Falling Stars, False Idol, Fascination, Fire's Glow, Follow, Games, God of Wishful Thinking, Gorgeous, Guess, Hand, Held, Her Man, Hide, Ignore, In the End, Inside, Joy For Life, Laugh, Lies, Likes To Look Good, Lips, Long, Love, Money, Need, Nexus, Pleasd, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Pride, Ramble, Shadow, Shift, Stand, Star Maps, Stranger's Room, Talk, Together, Too Late, Trick, Truth, Two, Woman, Worse
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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War, Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace
“To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington (1790)
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Tagged Common Defense, Effectual Means, First Princples, George Washington, Peace, Prepare, Preserve, War
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Thought For the Day: Everybody Believes In Something and Everybody, By Virtue of the Fact That They Believe In Something, Uses That Something To Support Their Own Existence
“Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.” – Frank Zappa
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Tagged Believe, Everybody, Existence, Frank Zappa, Support, Thought For the Day, Virtue of the Fact
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Past Blinking Twice
Past Blinking Twiceby Michael DoyleSome say forgetting is a giftIt’s a way past the riftBetween personal rationalizationAnd what allows you past sensationsThe ones that we cannot forgiveAnd yet it is that we must liveHowever, far past the thresholdThat our senses … Continue reading
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Tagged Blink, Crawl, Done, Evolve, Fear, Forgetting, Forgive, Gift, Human Beings, Life, Live, Longer, Mud, Nice, Personal, Poetry and Poems, Puddle of Blood, Rationalization, Rift, Sensation, Senses, Sorrow, Stronger, Survive, Threshold, Told, Tomorrow, Twice, Unthinkable
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