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Deep End Moments
Deep End Momentsby Michael DoyleThe deep end of the dating sceneIt can be or seem extremely shallowThat is, if you know what I meanIt’s, at best, the higher love’s shadowCan true love come without face-to-face?Or is that hoping for a … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Great Leading Objects of the Federal Government…Are To Maintain Domestic Peace, and Provide For the Common Defense
“The great leading objects of the federal government … are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Thought For the Day: Cooking Is At Once Child’s Play and Adult Joy. And Cooking Done With Care Is An Act of Love
“Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.” – Craig Claiborne
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Tagged Act of Love, Adult Joy, Care, Child's Play, Cooking, Craig Claiborne, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Our Constitution Was Made Only For A Moral and Religious People. It Is Wholly Inadequate To the Government of Any Other
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
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Tagged Any Other, Constitution, First Principles, Government, Inadequate, John Adams, Made Only, Moral, People, Religious
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Thought For the Day: For Evil To Take Place, the Acts of A Few People Are Not Sufficient; the Great Majority Also Has To Remain Indifferent
“For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.” – Tzvetan Todorov
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Tagged Act, All, Capable, Evil, Few People, Great Majority, Indifferent, Place, Sufficient, Thought For the Day, Tzvetan Todorov
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Time Tumbles
Time Tumblesby Michael DoyleTime Tumbles in its own jagged wayThis February is given a 29th dayCalled out special as a leap yearFor myself, it’s a cause to cheerIs it four years or passing as oneThat my work life has been … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, 29, Bringing Beauty, Burn, Celebration, Chance, Cheer, Chemicals, Choose Life, Days, Decision, Doing My Duty, Done, February, Flavored Water, Focus, Foolish Dream, Four Years, Four Years Out, Gift, Good, Hole, Jagged Way, Leap Year, Loving One Another, Mind-Numbing, Mindless Minion, Most of My Life, Numbered Days, One, Other Ways, Photography, Poetic Device, Poetic Line, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quick, Recall, Remind, Retire, Seams, Serving Others, Special, Suffice, Time Tumbles, Toast, Together, Valentine, Walking Sick, Won, Work Life, Would
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First Principles: Measures Which Serve To Abridge the Free Competition of Foreign Articles, Have A Tendency To Occasion An Enhancement of Prices
“Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.” – Alexander Hamilton (1791)
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Tagged Abridge, Alexander Hamilton, Enhancement, First Principles, Foreign Articles, Free Competition, Measures, Occasion, Price, Serve, Tendency
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Thought For the Day: Success Depends In A Very Large Measure Upon Individual Initiative and Exertion, and Cannot Be Achieved Except By A Dint of Hard Work
“Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.” – Anna Pavlova
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Tagged Achieve, Anna Pavolva, Depend, Dint, Except, Exertion, Hard Work, Individual Iniative, Large Measure, Success, Thought For the Day
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Mountain of Consequence
Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading
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