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First Principles: True Peace Rests On the Pillars of Individual Freedom, Human Rights, National Self-Determination, and Respect For the Rule of Law
“When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.” – Ronald Reagan
Thought For the Day: The Free, Exploring Mind of the Individual Human Is the Most Valuable Thing In the World
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Destroy, Direction, Fight, Free, Freedom of the Mind, Indivdiaul, John Steinbeck, Limit, Mind, Thought For the Day, Value, Wish
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In the Whisper of Time’s Sands
In the Whisper of Time’s Sandsby Michael DoyleWe can’t get a lock on the futureWithout knowing our pastWe can’t know what to nurtureIf we don’t know what was once castThe good hunter seeks to rise to the heightAs he sips … Continue reading
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Tagged Cacophony, Cast, Choices, Darkness, Falsity, First, Fool, Future, Good Hunter, Height, Knows All, Light, Lock, Nurture, Obstacles, One's Own Man, Open Mind, Past, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Right, Sight, Thirst, Time's Sands, Voices, Water of Life, Whisper, World
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First Principles: The First and Governing Maxim In the Interpretation of A Statute Is To Discover the Meaning of Those Who Made It
“The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.” – James Wilson (1790)
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Tagged Discover, First, First Principles, Governing, Interpretation, James Wilson, Maxim, Meaning, Statute
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Thought For the Day: Don’t Educate Your Children To Be Rich. Educate Them To Be Happy So They Know the Value of Things, Not the Price
“Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.” – Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
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Tagged Childre, Educate, Happy, Price, Rich, Thought For the Day, Value, Victor Hugo
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We Manage To Stand
We Manage To Standby Michael DoyleSunset captures fear’s reflectionAs the kitten meanders in the right directionUnhungry and not seeking some timid mouseBut rather the warmth of the familiar houseOnce the hunter, now the preyThe game of life has danger in … Continue reading
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Tagged Chase, Company, Danger, Drift, Familiar House, Fear, Flood, Fortune, Game of Life, Hunter, Kitten, Manage, Meander, Misery, Mouse, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prey, Reflection, Right Direction, Stand, Sunset, Survival, Sympathy, Trampled Underfoot, Unhungry, Wamth, Water's Flow
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First Principles: The Greatest Gift A Parent Can Give A Child Is Unconditional Love
“The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Love, Bearings, Child, First Principles, George W. Bush, Greatest Gift, Parent, Tough Love, Unconditional Love
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Thought For the Day: Love the Animals, Love the Plants, Love Everything. If you Love Everything, You Will Perceive the Divine Mystery In Things
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to … Continue reading
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Tagged A World of Difference, Animal, Brothers Karamazov, Divine, Embrace, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Love, Perceive, Plant, Spiritual, Thought For the Day
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Silently Feeling
Silently Feelingby Michael Doyle In this world that shifts and shattersMiracles happen most when they don’t matterIt feels a bit like cosmic confusionBut it’s really just a humbling illusionAll these thoughts of constant intrusionCome in layers of complex conclusionsEven these … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Beautiful, Better Places, Bleed, Body, Breaking Hard, Complex Conclusions, Constant Intrusion, Cosmic Confusion, Dead, Edge, Embrace, Escape, Fake, Feel, Four Leaf Clover, Good Sign, Hate, Humbling Illusion, Kiss, Layer, Lose Control, Loss, Lost, Love, Makers, Matter, Miracles, Missed, Moments, Need, Nightscape, Ocean Shore, Our Own Days, Our Own Way, Over, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pseudo-Messiah, Push On, Redefine, Said, Separate, Shatter, Shift, Silently Fading, Silently Feeling, Soul, Sustain, Takes the Place, Thoughts, Trick of the Tale, Wait, Want, Way, Wonderful, World
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Thought For the Day: Whatever We Plant In Our Subconscious Mind and Nourish With Repetition and Emotion Will One Day Become A Reality
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” – Earl Nightingale
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Tagged Earl Nightingale, Emotion, Mind, Nourish, One Day, Plant, Reality, Repetition, Subconscious, Thought For the Day
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