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First Principles: It Has Been A Source of Great Pain To Me To Have Met With So Many Among My Opponents Who Had Not the Liberality To Distinguish Between Political and Social Opposition
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading
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Tagged Distinguish, First Principles, Great Pain, Hatred, Liberality, Met, Opponents, Person, Political, Political Opinion, Social Oppoition, Source, Thomas Jefferson, Transfer
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Thought For the Day: More Important Than Your Obligation To Follow Your Conscience, Or At Least Prior To It, Is Your Obligation To Form Your Conscience Correctly
“More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.” – Antonin Scalia
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Tagged Antonin Scalia, Conscience, Correctly, Follow, Form, Important, Obligation, Prior, Thought For the Day
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Ever True
Ever Trueby Michael DoyleChasing the stars to see where they leadDreaming the dreams needed to take seedAnd grow into what it’s meant to meanThe moves to be made are yet to be seenWith a turn of the page come the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chasing the Stars, Chilled, Close, Connection, Contemplation, Days, Direction, Dream, Embrace, Ever True, Feeling, Forever, Harbor, Home, Keep Love Alive, Knowing Heart, Lead, Life's Temptations, Love, Made, Mean, Moves, Old School, Passions, Play, Poetry and Poems, Rules, Safe, Seed, Seen, Should, Soul-Felt, Spak, Spend, Survive, Trace, Turn of the Page, Understood, Vibes, Wait
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First Principles: The Natural Cure For An Ill-Administration, In A Popular or Representative Constitution, Is A Change of Men
“The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
Thought For the Day: Men Are Not Against You; They Are Merely For Themselves
“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.” – Gene Fowler, journalist and author (8 Mar 1890-1960)
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Tagged Against, Gene Fowler, Men, Mere, Themselves, Thought For the Day, You
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The Something Better
The Something Betterby Michael DoyleWe all need our person we can go toIt’s the heart and soul of me and youSomeone to fit in with who we areThe seventh string on a six-string guitarWe share ourselves molded like clayTo find … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Art, Beautiful Smile, Become, Believe, Beyond, Clay, Common, Connections, Deceived, Different, Door, Equally Weighed, Fit, Focus, Forever Stay, Foward, Go To, Guitar, Heart, Heart and Soul, Hidden, Hold Tight, Laugh, Little Details, Love, Me and You, Mold, Moments, More, Multiple Choices, Need, Never Leave, Our Person, Poetry and Poems, Received, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Share, Silent Prayers, Small Voices, Something Better, Souls, Speak, Stars, Style, This Time, Tight, Together, What's Real, Wish
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First Principles: Liberty Is A Word Which, According As It Is Used, Comprehends the Most Good and the Most Evil of Any In the World
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appropriate, Choice, Comprehend, Confusion, Divine Adoration, Enervate, First Principiles, Jealousy, Liberty, Most Evil, Most Good, Mouhs of Some, Necessary Government, Oliver Ellsworth, Power, Promote Good, Rulers, Sacred, Society, Used, Word
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Thought For the Day: Don’t Ask Me Who’s Influenced Me. A Lion Is Made Up of the Lambs He’s Digested, and I’ve Been Reading All My Life
“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life”. – Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971)
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Tagged All My Life, Ask, Digest, Giorgos Seferis, Influence, Lion, Lions, Made Up, Read, Thought For the Day
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To Walk Like Job
To Walk Like Jobby Michael DoyleThere is nothing so much as we regretAs to have not leaned in toward the netFending off against all intimidationAnd fighting back with concentrationWe see the proof in the documentationBut not so much in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Concentration, Documentation, Duplication, El Shaddai, Endure, Evil, Faith, Faithful, Fending Off, Fight Back, God, God's Glory, Hope, Intimidation, Israel, Jesus, Job, Model, Net, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Proof, Regret, Relatable Story, Shun, The Patriarchs, Understand, Upright, Victory's Crown
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