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First Principles: Music Gives A Soul To the Universe, Wings To the Mind, Flight To the Imagination and Life To Everything
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato
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Tagged Everything, First Principles, Flight, Imagination, Life, Mind, Music, Plato, Soul, Universe, Wings
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Thought For the Day: Where Words Fail, Music Speaks
“Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen
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Tagged Fail, Hans Christian Andersen, Music, Speak, Thought For the Day, Where, Words
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In the End (We Die Alone)
In the End (We Die Alone)by Michael DoyleHarsh words are toldSometimes quietly, sometimes boldThere are a million ways to live your yearsBut it’s best when you free your fearsAnte up to stay in the gameWhatever happened or who is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Above Ground, Ante Up, Balk, Best Ability, Best Card, Better, Beyond Our Capability, Blame, Bluff, Bold, Breath, Chin Held High, Chin Up, Desolate Mile, End, Face, Fake, Fears, Forgiving, Found, Friend, Getting Yourself Together, Grace, Hard, Harsh Words, Head Above Water, Hurt, Impartiality, In the End, Joker's Bluff, Keep On Living, Life, Life Is Life, Live, Live Your Years, Living, Loneliness, Loud, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Push Comes To Shove, Quite Enough, Rusted Glass, Smile, Stability, Surprise, Talk Your Walk, Thanks, Told, Troubles, We Die Alone
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Thought For the Day: Almost Nothing Material Is Needed For A Happy Life, For He Who Has Understood Existence
“Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.” – Marcus Aurelius
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Tagged Almost Nothing, Existence, Happy Life, Marcus Aurelius, Material, Thought For the Day, Undestood
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First Principles: How Few There Are Who Have Courage Enough To Own Their Faults, Or Resolution Enough To Mend Them
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Courage, Faults, Few, First Principles, Mend, Own, Resolution
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How, Then, Should I Live?
How Then Should I Live?by Michael DoyleI look around this world with troubles to seeAnd I wonder to myself how then should I be?There are troubles all around – enough to seeThe need is here everywhere for another way to … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Adere, Answers, Beatitudes, Believing, Better Citizens, Bible, Blind, Christian Theology, Christianity, Clear View, Comfortable, Confusion, Correct, Direction, Disbelieving, Everywhere, Forgive, God, God's Worship, Guidance, Head, Heart, Heartache, Hesitation, Hid, Home, Human Beings, Humility, Illusion, Jesus, Kingdom, Leaders, Leadership, Lean-In, Lessons, Live, Meaning, Meekness, Mercy, Miracles of Life, Misdeeds, Mistakes, Mourn, Obedience, Others First, Ourselves Less, Path, Patience, Philosophy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poor In Spirit, Pride, Profusion, Quench, Questions, Recognition, Relationship, Religions, Repentance, Righteousness, Satisfied, See, Seek, Sermon on the Mount, Sight, Sin, Sinful Nature, Steps, Strength, Submit, Thrist, Troubles, Unjust World, Ways of Man, Weakness, Wonder, World
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Thought For the Day: I Do Not Believe There Is A Problem In This Country Or the World Today Which Could Not Be Settled If Approached Through the Teaching of the Sermon On the Mount
“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.” – Harry S. Truman
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Tagged Approach, Believe, Country, Harry S. Truman, Problem, Sermon on the Mount, Settled, Teaching, Thought For the Day, Today, World
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First Principles: The Lord Will Guide You Always; He Will Satisfy Your Needs In A Sun-Scorched Land and Will Strengthen Your Frame
“The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” – Isaiah 58:11
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Tagged Always, Fail, First Principles, Frame, Garden, Guide, Isaiah 58:11, Spring, Strengthen, Sun-Scorched Land, The Lord, Waters, Your Needs
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Thought For the Day: Mistakes Are Always Forgivable, If One Has the Courage To Admit Them
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
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Tagged Admit, Bruce Lee, Courage, Forgivable, Mistakes, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: You Will Never Do Anything In This World Without Courage. It Is the Greatest Quality of the Mind Next To Honor
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
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Tagged Anything, Aristotle, Courage, First Principles, Greatest Quality, Honor, Mind, Never, World
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