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First Principles: A Nation That Destroys Its Soil Destroys Itself
“A Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Tagged Air, Destroy, First Principles, Forest, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Land, Lungs, Nation, Our People, Soil, Strength
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Thought For the Day: Man’s Heart, Away From Nature Becomes Hard… Lack of Respect For Growing, Living Things Soon Led To Lack of Respect For Human Too
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.” – Luther Standing Bear
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Tagged Grow, Hard, Humans, Lack of Respect, Lakota, Living Things, Luther Standing Bear, Man's Heaert, Nature, Thought For the Day
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My Living Prayer
My Living Prayerby Michael DoyleLooking on the mountainsDown to the seasLiving waters from the fountainsI live my life to pleaseThe God of generationsBringer of true venerationWe need you, here and nowBelieving in the somehowThat gets me day to dayAs I … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Comunion, Connection, Day To Day, Fountain, Generation, God, God Is Always There, Grace, Here and Now, Jesus, Life, Live and Pray, Living Prayer, Living Waters, Mounatains, Peace, Place, Please, Poetry and Poems, Sacrifice, Sea, Somehow, Spiritual Reunion, Suffice, Thankful, True Choice, Veneration, Voice, Wonderful
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First Principles: Responsibility, In Order To Be Reasonable, Must Be Limited To Objects Within the Power of the Responsible Party
“Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to be effectual, must relate to operations of that power, of which a ready and proper judgment can be … Continue reading
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Tagged Constituents, Effectual, First Principles, James Madison, Limit, Objects, Operations, Power, Proper Judgment, Reasonable, Responsibility, Responsible Party
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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Greatest Communication In the World
“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.” – Lou Rawls
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Tagged Communication, Good Music, Hear, Language, Lou Rawls, Music, Sing, Thought For the Day, Understand, World
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Of Space and Time
Of Space and Timeby Michael DoyleI sat back as the nurse checked my vitalsThinking of all the drama queens and teen idolsStarting there, as I sincerely try to explainAll that I have seen, and to try to make it plainWords … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Artistic Space, Astral Aliens, Comic Book, Comic Books, Comics, Drama Queens, Explain, Expression, Impression, Page, Poetry and Poems, Science Fiction, Secret Identity, Space and Time, Teen Idols, Time and Words, Trace, Transform, Vitals, Words and Pictures
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Thought For the Day: Art Is An Infinitely Precious Good, A Draught Both Refreshing and Cheering Which Restores the Stomach and the Mind To the Natural Equilibrium of the Ideal
“Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.” – Charles Baudelaire
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Tagged Art, Charles Baudelaire, Cheering, Draught, Ideal, Infinite, Mind, Natural Equilibrium, Precious Good, Refresshing, Restore, Stomach, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Never Suppose That In Any Possible Situation Or Under Any Circumstances, It is Best For You To Do A Dishonorable Thing, However Slightly
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you … Continue reading
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Tagged Circumstance, Dishonorable Thing, Earth, Fame, First Principles, Immoral Act, Money, Science, Situation, Slightly, Thomas Jefferson
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An Introduction To First Principles
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” —George Washington (1795) In the affirmative: Though the founding principles of the United States were drawn from another era, these principles remain essential to … Continue reading
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Losing Light
Losing Lightby Michael DoyleIn modern life’s twistWhere nothing is missedWe earn by the momentFelt in every tormentExposing our inner soulTo continuously extolThat which wins the moneyFalse tears seem funnyReborn into a hard day’s nightIt’s the hurt exposed to lightWhen forced … Continue reading
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Tagged Earn, Expose, Extol, False Tears, Felt, Hurt, Inner Soul, Losing Light, Modern Life, Moment, Money, Poetry and Poems, Reborn, Speak, Torment, Twist
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