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First Principles: I Hate War As Only A Soldier Who Has Lived It Can, Only As One Who Has Seen Its Brutality, Its Futility, Its Stupidity
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Thought For the Day: Those Who Corrupt the Public Mind Are Just As Evil As Those Who Steal From the Public Purse
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”- Adlai E. Stevenson
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To Be Understood
To Be Understoodby Michael DoyleWe get carried away by the moonlightForgetting ourselves in the hope of getting it rightThe garden walls throw off our shadowsIn hopes for what we do not truly knowIn all this world’s flight or fight distractionIt … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Anxiety, Attraction, Box of Chocolates, Carried Away, Chance, Day, Differences, Distraction, Embrace, Feelings, Fight Or Flight, Forget, Garden Walls, Getting It Right, Good, Hint, Hope, Hurray, Illustration, Inch By Inch, Inference, Know, Little By Little, Mask, Moonlight, Okay, Poetry and Poems, Reveal, Romance, Sacred Task, Seen, Shadows, Shyness, Too Much, Touch, True Face, Understood, Valentine
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First Principles: Tyrants Accomplish Their Purposes Without Resistance, Is, By Disarming the People, and Making It An Offense To Keep Arms
“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.” – Justice Joseph Story
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Tagged Accomplish, Arms, Disarm, First Principles, Joseph Story, Offense, Ordinary Mode, Purpose, Resistance, The People, Tyrant
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Thought For the Day: It Takes A Lot of Time To Be A Genius, You Have To Sit Around So Much Doing Nothing, Really Doing Nothing
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.” – Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet, and playwright (3 Feb 1874-1946)
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Rumor Is…
Rumor Is…by Michael DoyleRumor is that happinessIs not a preconceived moment of blissBut a journey through the yearsTaken awhile with all of your peersWho feel as though they’ve lived theirs rightWhile yours has been a constant fightFaceless and somehow namelessThey … Continue reading
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Tagged Adequate, Ask, Blameless, Blink, Bliss, Christians, Conflict, Constant Fight, Cures, Facless, Feel, Fix, Forgive, Forgiven, Forgiving, Given, Happiness, Head, Heck of A World, Jouney, Live, Living, Moment, Nameless, Not Yours, Peace and Understanding, Peers, Poetry and Poems, Preconceived, Pretend, Right, Rumor Is, Said, Shout, Tasks, Voices, War of Theirs, Years, Your Opinions
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First Principles: What Lies Behind Us and What Lies Before Us As Are Tiny Matters Compared To What Lies Within Us
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Before, Behind, Compare, First Principles, Lies, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Tiny Matters, Us, Within
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Thought For the Day: Quietly Endure, Silently Suffer and Patiently Wait
“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Under the Banner of God
Under the Banner of Godby Michael DoyleSolid in the righteousness of divinityThe Bible spells out God’s theologyIt is rooted in its stubborn convictionOf which there is no better indicationThan the truth that is vividly toldAs God’s glorious story openly unfoldsThere … Continue reading
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Tagged Banner, Bible, Christianity, Divinity, Faith, God, God's Light, Jesus, Peace and Grace, Poetry and Poems, Righteousness, Shine, Story, Stubborn Conviction, The Bible, The Gospel, Theology, To Get Right, Told, Truth, Unfold, Worship
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Thought For the Day: The Best Way To Renew Thought Is To Outside the Human Imagination
“The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.” —Bernard Werber
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Tagged Bernard Weber, Best Way, Human Imagination, Outside, Renew, Thought, Thought For the Day
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