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Thought For the Day: Where We Stand Is Not As Important As the Direction In Which We Are Moving
“Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Tagged Direction, Important, Moving, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, Stand, Thought For the Day, We
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First Principles: Here Comes the Orator! With His Flood of Words, and His Drop of Reason
“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” – Benjamin Franklin (1735) Did anyone else find that State of the Union Address less than unifying?
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Come, Drop of Reason, First Principles, Flood, Orator, Words
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There’s Been A Little Damage
There’s Been A Little Damageby Michael DoyleThere’s been a little damage to my eyesBut that’s the cost to all that I’ve seenAs with a brave heart ready for the sunriseThere have been so many places that I’ve beenThe experts say … Continue reading
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Tagged Been, Blind, Brave Heart, Cost, Damage, Dead, Encouragement, Estimate, Experts, Eyes, Fade, Find, First To Admit, Guess, Heartbreaks, Heavy, Joy, Larger, Life, Manage To See, Mistakes, Much Less, Not Seen Everyday, Okay, Places, Poetry and Poems, Pushing On, Quite Nice, Quite Right, Report, Seen, Seen Along the Way, Sight, Somehow, Strong, Sunrise, Sy, Travesty, Vascular Enchroachment, Wrong
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First Principles: The Mild Voice of Reason, Pleading the Cause of An Enlarged and Permanent Interest, Is But Too Often Drowned
“The mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.” – James … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Nature’s Laws Affirm Instead of Prohibit. If You Violate Her Laws, You Are Your Own Prosecuting Attorney, Judge, Jury, and Hangman
“Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.” -Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
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Tagged Affirm, Hangman, Judge, Jury, Nature's Laws, Prosecuting Attorney, Rohibit, Thought For the Day
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Growing Our Intimacy
Growing Our Intimacyby Michael DoyleWe have so little time for introspectionAs we approach life with our expectationsSometimes it’s an easy flow of conversationOther times, we’re micro-managing our destinationBeing present and being openly hereIs the experiment of what might disappearAs our … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Alibis, Anticipating, Approach, Approach Love, Attract, Bad Girls, Becoming Us, Being Present, Comfortable Silence, Confirmation, Conversations, Cry, Dance, Destination, Disappear, Each Day, Easy Flow, Electricity, Excitement, Expectations, Experiment, Fake, Feel, Friendship, Grow, Hope, Internal Debate, Intimacy, Introduce, Introspection, Just Because, Letting Love Flow, Life, Little Time, Love, Magnet, Micro-manage, Nice Guys, Nights of Love, Open, Party, Path, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rough, Scaru, Sentimental, Sincerity, Smile, Something Much Better, Something Real, Spark, Spend Together, Sweet surrender, Take, Talk, The same, Think, Together, Touch the Flame, Try, Welcome, Why, Words
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Thought For the Day: If People Knew How Hard I Worked To Get My Mastery, It Wouldn’t Seem So Wonderful After All
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564)
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Tagged After All, Hard, Knew, Mastery, Michelangelo Buonarroti, People, Thought For the Day, Wondeful, Work
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First Principles: Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors
“Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Bad Passions, Coercion, Desirable, Face and Stature, FallibleMen, First Principles, Inquisitors, Opinion, Private, Public, Reasons, Stand, Subject, Thomas Jefferson, Tuth, Uniformity
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A Huntington Beach Memory
A Huntington Beach Memoryby Michael DoyleThe sand in my shoesHolds a Midas shadowOver time passages and windowsOf all these memories and bluesMy eyes rise to the timeless skiesWhen certain songs on the radio playThis, then, is no real disguiseFor the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accurate, Al Stewart, Appreggiated, Arts, Blues, Certainty, Charade, Clinker, Closer To the Heart, Coming, Crescendo, Daydreams, Days, Disguise, Done, Echo, Ending, Eyes, Forget, Girls, Got Away, Guitars, Held, Highway One, History, Huntington Beach, Illusion, Jam, Left Behind, Lot To Say, Memories, Memory, Midas, Mind, Old Song, Play, Poetry and Poems, Present, Radio, Radio Charts, Regret, Remember, Sand, Shadow, Shoes, Songs, Straightened, Sunshine, Time Passages, Timeless Skies, Verses, Wheels of Confusion, Windows, Wonder
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First Principles: If the Public Are Bound To Yield Obedience To Laws To Which They Cannot Give Their Approbation, They Are Slaves To Those Who Make Such Laws and Enforce Them
“If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” – Samuel Adams (1772)
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Tagged Approbation, Bound, Enforce, First Principles, Law, Obedience, Public, Samuel Adams, Slaves
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