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Thought For the Day: Great Countries Need To Secure Their Border For National Security Purposes, For Economic Purposes and For Rule of Law Purposes
“Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.” – Jeb Bush
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Tagged Border, Economic, Great Countries, Jeb Bush, National Security, Purposes, Rule of Law, Secure, Thought For the Day
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Thoughts Looking Back
Thoughts Looking Backby Michael DoyleI do not want to say anything that isn’t trueAt least, that is, from my deepest point of viewI have lived my life in its living, and as a writer,Often seeking to find life a little … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Moments, Bright, Fall, First Admission, Gloss, Happy, Hasty Judgment, Heartbreaks, Horror and Pain, Language, Life, Looking Back, Miles, Mistakes, Mystery and Miracle, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Seek Good, Smiles, Spring, Tell, Thoughts, True, Writer
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First Principles: Where There Is No Law, There Is No Liberty; and Nothing Deserves the Name of Law But That Which Is Certain and Universal In Its Operation Upon All the Members of the Community
“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.” – Benjamin Rush (1788)
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, Certain, Community, Deserve, First Principles, Liberty, Members, Name of Law, No Law, Operation, Universal
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Thought For the Day: Writers, However Mature and Wise, Are Children At Heart
“Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.” – Edna O’Brien
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In A Parisian Crowd
In A Parisian Crowdby Michael DoyleThe French soul Is wrapped around500 year old plumbingLike a lump of coalOn a Christmas dayIt has its significanceAnd at times its magnificenceBut there’s something to sayFor finding other, better waysAnd even the naughty findIt … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquit, Better Ways, Brazen, Breaks Your Fall, Bridge, Christmas Day, Clueless, Coal, Contribution, Controversy, Crowd, Faux Culture, French Soul, French Way, Gaze, Guilty, Habit, Heresy, Honest, Joke, Knife, Lonely, Magnificence, Nude, Numb, Paris, Parisian, Play, Plumbing, Poetry and Poems, Politically Incorrect, Quit, Rightful Place, Say, Significance, Solution, Sranger, Talk, Truth, Wrap
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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man…” – George Washington
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Tagged Character, First Essential, First Principles, George Washington, Good, Important, Learned, Man, Mankind, Moral, Virtuous
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Thought For the Day: A Mind Is Like A Parachute. It Doesn’t Work If It Isn’t Open
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.” – Frank Zappa
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Tagged Frank Zappa, Mind, Open, Parachute, Thought For the Day, Work
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Thought For the Day: Perfumes Are the Feelings of Flowers
“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”– Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
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Tagged Christian Johann Heinrich Heine, Feeling, Flowers, Human Heart, Imagine, Perfume, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties If Anything…Extraneous Should Infect the Purity of Our Free…Independent Elections
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797)
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Tagged Danger, Extraneous, Fair, First Principles, Free, Independent Elections, Infect, John Adams, Liberties, Lose Sight, Ourselves, Partial, Purity, Unfaithful, Virtuous
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