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First Principles: We Cannot Learn From One Another Until We Stop Shouting At One Another, Until We Speak Quietly Enough So That Our Words Can Be Heard
“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Deliver, Difficult Years, Discontent, Fever, First Priinciples, Hatred, Heard, Lean, One Another, Posture, Promise, Rhetoric, Richard M. Nixon, Shout, Speak Quietly, Voice, Words
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Hula Memories
Hula Memoriesby Michael DoyleThe modern age has its share of complexity.But not enough to warrant Hawaiian anxiety.The sacred duty held with great veneration,Is the sacred duty felt by each generation.Hula is the language of the Hawaiian heart.It has remained so … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, Art, Beauty, Call and Response, Chant, Choice, Complexity, Connection, Courage, Dance, Dancers, Direction, Express, Fear, Feel, Found, Generation, Gourd, Grave, Ground, Guard, Harmony, Hawaiian Anxiety, Heart, Heiau, Heritage, Hula, Language, Loosen the Key, Love, Memory, Million Stars, Modern Age, Move, Musician, Night, Peace, Pig Roast, Poetry and Poems, Polynesian, Postion, Real, Return Home, Sacred Duty, Save, Slack Key Guitar, Spirituality, Step, Strife, Symbolic, Tale, Temple Stone, The Islands, Travel, Ukuleles, Unison, Way of Life, Writing
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First Principles: Yesterday Is Not Ours To Recover, But Tomorrow Is Ours To Win Or Lose
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Tagged First Principles, Lose, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Ours, Recover, Tomorrow, Win, Yesterday
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The World Changes (Waiting On You)
The World Changes (Waiting On You)by Michael DoyleThere’s no doubt about it,Whether we whisper or shout it.It’s always so good to be home,Even when we’re there alone.You share your love among fans and friends,Quietly or loudly until the music ends.You … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Alone, Broken Love, Change, Crazy Ways, Desire, Direction, Dissagree, Doubt, End, Faith, Fans and Friends, Feeling, Fire, Free, Good, Grave, Heats of Darkness, Home, Know, Left Standing, Life, Loud, Love, Music, On the Road, Poetry and Poems, Quiet, Reel, Rreason, Sad and Deep, Seasons, Share, Shout, Show, Song, Sorrow, Spotlight, Tomorrow, Too Long, Truth, Wait, Whisper, Wonder, World, Writing
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First Principles: Let Us Not Seek the Republican Answer Or the Democratic Answer, But the Right Answer. Let Us Not Seek To Fix the Blame For the Past. Let Us Accept Our Own Responsibility For the Future
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Answer, Blame, Democratic, First Principles, Fix, Future, John F. Kennedy, Past, Repoulican, Responsibility, Seek
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Thought For the Day: People Are Always Talking On Their Phones, Or Looking At Their Phones, Because They Don’t Want To Be Alone With Their Thoughts
“People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don’t want to be alone with their thoughts.” – Martin Amis
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Tagged Alone, Look, Martin Amis, People, Phones, Talk, Thought, Thought For the Day
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Death Revealed Truths
Death Revealed Truthsby Michael DoyleWe don’t get more real than with death.The feeling of this stays until the last breath.If you’re not prepared to succumb and die,We need to focus on the how and the why.If you’re not ready for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Breath, Christianity, Death, Die, Faith, Flame, Focus, God, Gulf, Jesus, Live, Poetry and Poems, Revelation, Shadow, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Our Greatest Weakness Lies In Giving Up. The Most Certain Way To Succeed Is Always To Try Just One More Time
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
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Tagged Certain Way, Giving up, Great, Just One More Time, Succeed, Thomas Edison, Thought For the Day, Try, Weakness
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