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Thought For the Day: We Never Get To the Bottom of Ourselves On Our Own. We Discover Who We Are Face To Face and Side by Side With Others In Work, Love, and Learning
“We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.” – Robert N. Bellah
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Tagged Bottom, Discover, Face to Face, Learning, Love, Others, Own, Robert N. Bellah, Selves, Side By Side, Thought For the Day, Work
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Against All Hope
Against All Hopeby Michael DoyleAll alone, by myselfI searched on the shelfFor the words to knowJust how I might growTo start over in this testTo come through with the restIn a crash of my identityI lived my life renewing sincerityThere … Continue reading
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Tagged Against, Alone, Attention, Burn, Come Through, Conspire, Corrupt, Crash, Crowd, Fake, Fire, Fools, Grow, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Identity, Know, Lie, Look Down, Lost, Madness, Mean, Meek, Mercy, Outcasts, Poetry and Poems, Pretension, Search, Self, Shelf, Sincerity, Test, Truth, Unaware, Vanity, Weakest Length, Weakness, Words
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First Principles: The More Man Meditates Upon Good Thoughts, the Better Will Be His World and the World At Large
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” – Confucius
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Tagged Better, Confucius, First Principles, Good Thoughts, Meditate, More, World
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Thought For the Day: Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
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Tagged All, Few, Love, None, Thought For the Day, Trust, William Shakespeare, Wrong
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Left Behind
Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Bounds of Authority, Civil Society, Constitution, End, Exigency, First Principles, Government, Ijury, James Madison, Justice, Justisy, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Powers, Pursue, Pursuit, Standard, The People, Tyrannical Use
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Thought For the Day: Education Perverts the Mind Since We Are Directly Opposing the Natural Development of Our Mind By Obtaining Ideas First and Observations Last
“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among … Continue reading
First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God
“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.” – George Washington (1789)
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Tagged Acknowledge, Benefits, Duty, Favor, First Principles, George Washington, God, Grateful, Humble, Implore, Nation, Obey, Protection, Providence, Will
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Thought For the Day: The Possession of Knowledge Does Not Kill the Sense of Wonder and Mystery. There Is Always More Mystery
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” – Anais Nin
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Tagged Anais Nin, Kill, Knowledge, Mystery, Possession, Sense, Thought For the Day, Wonder
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