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Thought For the Day: Fear of Serious Injury Cannot Alone Justify Suppression of Free Speech and Assembly
“Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” – Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
First Principles: The Greatest Good We Can Do For Our Country Is To Heal Its Party Divisions and Make Them One People
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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Tagged Country, First Principles, Greatest Good, Heal, One People, Party Divisions, Thomas Jefferson
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…Maybe Tomorrow…
…Maybe Tomorrow…by Michael DoyleTomorrow isn’t really about tomorrowSo much as it about avoiding sorrowThe kind that grows, and we borrowWhen we’re struck deep in our marrowWaiting for the moment’s opportunityWe push forward to relentlessly Filled with the confidence of dreamsThat … Continue reading
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Tagged As We Go, Avoid, Borrow, Choose, Confidence, Dreams, Grow, Marrow, Maybe, Moment, Movie of Our Life, Narration, Opportunity, Play, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Relentlessly, Scenes, Screen, Show, Sorrow, Struck, Tomorrow
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Thought For the Day: There Are Three Rules For Writing A Novel. Unfortunately, No One Knows What They Are
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” – William Somerset Maugham
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Tagged Know, Novel, Rules, Thought For the Day, Three, Unfortunate, William Somerset Maugham, Write
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First Principles: National Defense Is One of the Cardinal Duties of A Statesman
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815) Clearly, that includes defending the borders of our republic. The surge of illegal immigration cannot be allowed to go unchecked.
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Tagged Cardinal, Duty, Factional Differences, First Principles, Irrespective, John Adams, National Defense, One, Party Politics, Statesman
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First Principles: I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God, Eternal Hostility Against Every Form of Tyranny Over the Mind of Man
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)
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Tagged Altar, Eternal Hostility, First Principles, Form, God, Mind of Man, Sworn, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: Laugh As Much As Possible, Always Laugh. It’s the Sweetest Thing One Can Do For Oneself & One’s Fellow Human Beings
“Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It’s the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one’s fellow human beings.” – Maya Angelou
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Tagged Human Beings, Laugh, Maya Angelou, Oneself, Possible, Sweetest Thing, Thought For the Day
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Loving Enough For Two
Loving Enough For Twoby Michael DoyleIt was easy enough to feel slightedAs off in the distance, he sightedEnough to evidence his dreams shatteringAs her coldness set his teeth chatteringHe hadn’t wanted to open up and hear itThat there was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledgment, Admiration, Adoration, Basket, Beyond Good and Evil, Birth of Love, Blessed, Blind, Character, Coldness, Contest, Count the Ways, Critical Eyes, Crystalize, Delight, Disparageer, Doubt, Easy Enough, Evidence, Fear, Give, Hear, Hope, Impluasibility, Impossibility, Lines, Love, Loving Enough, Merit, Mind, Mirror, Misstep, Monogamy, Obvious, Optimist, Permanent, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Reasons, Restlessness, Shine, Sighted, Sights, Signs, Simple Plot, Slighted, Solitude, The Happy Few, Theory, Thought, Trapped, Twilight, Two, Well Spring, Whim, Wrong or Right
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Thought for the Day: If You Don’t Love Me, It Does Not Matter, Anyway I Can Love For Both of Us
“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23 Jan 1783-1842)
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Tagged "If you don't love me, Both, it does not matter, Love, Matter, Me, Thought For the Day, You
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