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First Principles: We Must Dare To Be Great, and We Must Realize That Greatness Is the Fruit of Toil and Sacrifice and High Courage
“We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.” – William Howard Taft
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Tagged Dare, First Principles, Fruit of Toil, Great, Greatness, High Courage, Realize, Sacrifice, William Howard Taft
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Thought For the Day: A Sound Head, An Honest Heart, and An Humble Spirit Are the Three Best Guides Through Time and To Eternity
“A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.” – Walter Scott
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Tagged Best Guides, Eternity, Honest Heart, Humble Spirt, Sound Head, Thought For the Day, Three, Time, Walter Scott
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Well Met In the Night
Well Met In the Nightby Michael DoyleWe meet in the night, hiding in the masqueradePretending, as we do, in our game of charade,That while we pretend to have no hint of fearThere’s security that gains us gathered here. Social wallflowers … Continue reading
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Tagged Borrowed Shoes, Charade, Children, Coal, Dance, Diamond, Eyes, Fear, Fiction, Giants, Gravity, High-Class, Legal Friction, Levity, Love, Masquerade, Night, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pretend, Security, Social Wallflowers, Well Met
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Thought For the Day: The Mirror Reflects Your Image But Your Soul Reflects Your Beauty. In Every Glance, Every Tear, Every Smile, Your True Nature Shines Through
“The mirror reflects your image but your soul reflects your beauty. In every glance, every tear, every smile, your true nature shines through.” – Doe Zantamata
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Tagged Beauty, Glance, Image, Mirror, Reflection, Shine, Smile, Soul, Tear, Thought For the Day, True Nature
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First Principles: The Evils We Experience Flow From the Excess of Democracy. The People Do Not Want Virtue, But Are the Dupes of Pretended Patriots
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.” – Elbridge Gerry, Constitutional Convention (May 31, 1787)
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Tagged Constitutional Convention, Democracy, Dupes, Elbridge Gerry, Evil, Excess, Experience, First Principles, Pretended Patriots, The People, Virtue
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Voice Sang Soft
Voice Sang Softby Michael DoyleYour voice sang softly like a melody.It’s hard to say what it did to me.Then and there from the very start,Your love was gentle, blooming in my heart.Your smile might be your special power,As it captivated … Continue reading
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Tagged Begun, Belong, Better, Blindness, Bloom, Blow, Born, Choice, Complete and Strong, Distant Seasons, Everybody Knows, Eyes, Feel, Fire of Love, Flower, Forever, From, Future, Gentle, Glow, Grateful, Heart, Hearts Beat, Kind Words, Kindness, Life, Linger, Love, Magic, Melody, Miracle, Music, Night, Night Breeze, One, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Reason, Right, Same, Sang, Smile, Soft, Starlit Sky, Start, Together, Unforgettable, Voice, Walk, Words, Worlds, Writing, Your Love
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First Principles: To Befoul the Unholy Alliance Between Corrupt Business and Corrupt Politics Is the First Task of the Statesmanship of Today
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Drama Is Life With the Dull Bits Left Out. There Is No Terror In the Bang, Only In the Anticipation of It
“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Audience, Bang, Drama, Dull Bits, Endurance, Film, Horror, Length, Life, Mind, Screen, Terror, Thought For the Day
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Subversive of Conformity
Subversive of Conformityby Michael DoyleSame likes same, in the interest of conformity.But do we stop to consider the vast enormity?What is the outcome of unquestioning loyaltyIn a nation and world prone toward brutality?However infantile, an attack on orthodoxyLeaves a lasting … Continue reading
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Tagged Blasphemy, Brutality, Conformity, Enormity, Faith, God, Infantile, Interest, Jesus, Land of the Free, Loyalty, Orthodoxy, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Question, Subserviion
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First Principles: Let Us Ever Remember That Our Interest Is In Concord, Not In Conflict; and That Our Real Eminence Rests In the Victories of Peace, Not Those of War
“Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.” – William McKinley
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Tagged Concord, Conflict, Eminence, First Principles, Interest, Peace, Remember, Victory, War, William McKinley
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 