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One More Battle
One More Battleby Michael DoyleEven legends grow tiredWhen age creeps in, and winter is cold.The will is no longer strong or firedDespite song sung in the days of old.The price on one’s grayed headMust be collected, alive or deadIf it … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Battle, Death, Legends, Poetry and Poems, Will, Winter
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Thought For the Day: Architecture Aims At Eternity
“Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth…. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Architecture, Christopher Wren, Country, Eeternity, Nation, Ornament, Political Use, Public Buildings, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Laws Should Be Rigidly Enforced Which Prohibit the Immigration of A Servile Class To Compete With American Labor, With No Intention of Acquiring Citizenship
“The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.” – Grover … Continue reading
Lizzie Borden IV: Obscured Vanity
Lizzie Borden IV: Obscured Vanityby Michael DoyleTrue to the nature of her kind,It’s always another trick of the mind.Her ploy of seeded manipulationMade it a trigger pulled by devotion.Lizzie found her way to womanhoodMisunderstanding bad for good.The luck of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Lizzie Borden, Manipulation, Nature, Obscurity, Poetry and Poems, Vain
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Thought For the Day: A Society With Too Few Independent Thinkers Is Vulnerable To Control By Disturbed and Opportunistic Leaders
“A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Control, Independent Thinkers, John Dewey, Leader, Opporunistic, Society, Thought For the Day, Vulnerability
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First Principles: The Budget Should Be Balanced Not By More Taxes, But By Reduction of Follies
“The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.” – Herbert Hoover
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Tagged Balance, First Principles:, Folly, Herbert Hoover, Reduction, Taxes, The Budget
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Living Mystery
Living Mysteryby Michael DoyleI’ve led a life of scarsEarned under the summer’s stars.All around me, I’ve seen God move,And I’ve struggled to improve.I was just another long-haired boyLifting my voice with anger and joy.Overwhelmed by the moving score,I fought for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bold, Crash, Days, God, Improvement, Living Mystery, Long-Haired Boy, Older, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Scar, Seen, Summer's Stars, Voice
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Thought For the Day: We Need Men With Moral Courage To Speak and Write Their Real Thoughts, and To Stand By Their Convictions, Even To the Very Death
“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
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Tagged Conviction, Death, Mankind, Moral Courage, Real Thoughts, Robert Green Ingersoll, Speak, Thought For the Day, Write
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First Principles: But Stephen, Full of the Holy Spirit, Looked Up To Heaven and Saw the Glory of God, and Jesus Standing At the Right Hand of God
But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. – Acts 7:55 NIV
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Tagged Acts 7:55 NIV, First Pinciples, Glory of God, God, Heaven, Holly Spirit, Jesus, Right Hand, Stephen
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Thought For the Day: God Is A Specialist At Making Something Useful and Beautiful Out of Something Broken and Confused
“God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.’ – Charles R. Swindoll
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Tagged God, Beautiful, Thought For the Day, Useful, Broken, Confused, Charles R. Swindoll, Specialist
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