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Thought For the Day: Gratitude Bestows Reverence, Allowing Us To Encounter Everyday Epiphanies, Those Transcendent Moments of Awe That Change Forever How We Experience Life and the World
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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Tagged Allow, Awe, Change, Encounter, Epiphany, Experience, Gratitude, John Milton, Life, Reverence, Thought For the Day, Transcendent Moments, World
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First Principles: The True Liberty of the Press Is Amply Secured By Permitting Every Man To Publish His Opinion; But…Inquire Into the Motives of Such Publications
“The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between … Continue reading
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Tagged Defamation, First Principles, Motiive, Opinion, Public Good, Publish, Security, The Press, Thomas McKean, True Liberty, Use and Reformation
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Bloodline Embraced
Bloodline Embracedby Michael DoyleAway from the fire I hideAs I quietly wait and confide.The Savior has healed my heartAnd this blessing will never depart.I give thankfulness from this wayward sonFor the too many times I thought I was done.But the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Bloodlne, eartt, Embrace, Fire, Glory, Hidden, Thankfulness, The Cross, The Savior
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Thought For the Day: Goodness Is About Character – Integrity Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Moral Courage, and the Like. It Is About How We Treat Other People
“Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” – Dennis Prager
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First Principles: Before I Formed You In the Womb I Knew You; Before You Were Born I Set You Apart; I Appointed You As A Prophet To the Nations
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” – Jeremiah 1:5 NIV
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Tagged Appointment, Birth, First Principles, Formation, Jeremiah 1:5 NIV, Knew, Nations, Personhood, Prophet, Set Apart, Womb
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Thought For the Day: Knowing Your Own Darkness Is the Best Method For Dealing With the Darknesses of Other People
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Awaken, Best Method, Carl Jung, Conscious, Darknesses, Deal, Dream, Enlightenment, Figures of Light, Hearrt, Inside, Know, Other People, Outside, Thought For the Day, Visiion
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First Principles: Texas Can Make It Without the United States, But the United States Cannot Make It Without Texas
“Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas”– Sam Houston
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Tagged First Principles, Make It, Sam Houston, Texas, United States
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Thought For the Day: The Framers of the Bill of Rights Did Not Purport To ‘Create’ Rights. Rather, They Designed the Bill of Rights To Prohibit Our Government From Infringing Rights and Liberties Presumed To Be Preexisting
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” – Justice William J. Brennan
First Principles: The Happiness of A People, and the Good Order and Preservation of Civil Government, Essentially Depend On Piety, Religion, and Morality
“The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.” – Fisher Ames
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Tagged A People, Civil Government, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Good Order, Happiness, Morality, Piety, Preservation, Religion
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Open Questions of Opportunity
Open Questions of Opportunityby Michael DoyleA landscape of soy and cornIs grown and has become replete.In it, a different paradigm is born,One rejecting the smaller portions of beef.There is an unhealthiness in the equation.Leaner foods could redeem the soil and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beef, Equation, Health, Inflammmation, Landscape, Open Questions, Opportunity, Paradigm, Poetry and Poems, Soil, Soy and Corn, Unhealthiness
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