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Thought For the Day: Information is not knowledge. Knowledge Is Not Wisdom. Wisdom Is Not Truth. Truth Is Not Beauty. Beauty Is Not love. Love Is Not Music. Music Is the Best
“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.” – Frank Zappa
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Tagged Beauty, Best, Frank Zappa, Information, Knowleddge, Love, Music, Thought For the Day, Truth, Wisdom
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An Angel Imperfectly
An Angel Imperfectlyby Michael DoyleIn protection from life’s adversity An angel spread his wings imperfectlyKnowing that life has limited mercyTo protect us from the things of historyMore profound than deep, I hear the river flowSomewhere beside where life’s garden growsA … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Angel, Debris, Endured, Future, Garden, History, Humanity, Imperfect, Nurture, Poetry and Poems, Protection, River, Winds
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First Principles: In Time of Peace There Can, At All Events, Be No Justification For the Creation of A Permanent Debt by the Federal Government
“In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.” … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Greatest Task For Any Person Is To Find Meaning In His Or Her Own Life
“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Adler, Any Person, Freud, Greatest, Life, Meaning, Pleasure, Power, Quest, Task, Thought For the Day, Viktor E. Frankl
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A Nation’s Passion Play
A Nation’s Passion Playby Michael DoyleFrom our earliest days, when we dwelt in caves,We have tried to understand what it is that savesOur rarest sentiments are served up like a delicacyThese are questionable as we define principled libertyIt is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Betrayed, Childish Illusions, Civilized Country, Complexity, Condemnation, Delicacy, Earliest Days, Empathy, Freedom, Great Escape, Hard, Hard Road, Nation, Passion Play, Poetry and Poem, Principled Liberty, Saves, Sentiment, Shame, Slavery, Sympathy, Understnd, Wisdom
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First Principles: The Credit Belongs To the Man Who Is Actually In the Arena, Whose Face Is Marred By Dust and Sweat and Blood…Who At Worst, If He Fails, At Least Fails While Daring Greatly
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Credit, Critic, Daring Greatly, Fails, First Principles, High Achievement, In the Arena, Strive, Theodore Roosevelt, Triumph, Worst
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Thought For the Day: If There Are No Dogs In Heaven, Then When I Die I Want To Go Where They Went
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers
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Tagged Dogs, Go, Heaven, Thought For the Day, Went, Will Rogers
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Due North
Due Northby Michael DoyleIn these daysWhen everything has gone frothyIn a million waysWe need those around to be worthyThat’s who my friend had always beenThe one I knew was good for the winEver since back in high schoolI knew her … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Always Been, Answer, Beat It, Brave, Calm, Cancer, Challenge, Come Hell or High Water, Concentration, Connected, Crisis, Days, Degree of Fascination, Demeanor, Due North, Facebook, Feel, Focus, Friend, Frothy, Glide, Good For the Win, Hallway, High School, Is, Joyous Laughter, Keep Things Real, Kept Cool, Lie On My Lips, Lifetime Past, Look, Lord, Lost Track, Million Ways, Mindfulness, More Than Fair, My Friend, Nobody's Fool, Paddleboarder, Peace, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Progress, Reconnected, Reflective, Same As the Last, Same Smile, Searching For An Answer, Sigh, Simple, Smile, Soul, Stalled, Stay Still, Stride, Style, Surreal, Tear, Test, Time, Traded Quips, True North Star, Water, Wherever, Words, Worthy, Yesterday
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First Principles: The Question Is Not What Rights Naturally Belong To Man But How They May Be Most Equally and Effectually Guarded In Society
“The question is not what rights naturally belong to ma, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.” – Roger Sherman
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Tagged Belong, Effectual, Equal, First Principles, Guarded, Natural, Question, Rights, Roger Sherman, Society
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Thought For the Day: The Timeless In You Is Aware of Life’s Timelessness. And Knows That Yesterday Is But Today’s Memory And Tomorrow is Today’s Dream
“The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet
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Tagged Aware, Dream, Kahlil Gibran, Know, Life, Memory, The Prophet, Thought For the Day, Timeless, Today, Yesterday, You
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 