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Thought For the Day: Truth Is Always Exciting. Speak It, Then. Life Is Dull Without It
“Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.” – Pearl S. Buck
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First Principles: Of All the Properties Which Belong To Honorable Men, Not One Is So Highly Prize As That of Character
“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.” – Henry Clay
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Cornered Stone
Cornered Stoneby Michael DoyleIn all the hearts broken,Stumbled over false words spoken,Jesus remains as the lightThat brings safe passage in the night.The world might bring darkness,Our experience speaks unhappiness,And sometimes we hurt and need love.We need to fix our eyes … Continue reading
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Tagged Broken Heartss, Corner Stone, False Words, Jesus, Light, Poetry and Poems, Safe Passage
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Thought For the Day: The Further A Society Drifts From Truth the More It Will Hate Those Who Speak It
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”– George Orwell
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First Principles: But the Measure of A Man, of A Life, of A Union of Man and Wife Or Even Country Is Not the Falling. It’s In the Rising Back Up Again To Repair What’s Broken, To Put Right What’s Wrong
“But the measure of a man, of a life, of a union of man and wife or even country is not in the falling. It’s in the rising back up again to repair what’s broken, to put right what’s wrong” … Continue reading
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Tagged Broken, Counttry, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Falll, First Principles, Indvidual, Life, Manknd, Marriage, Measure, Repair, Right, Rise, Wrong
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An Alien Nightmare
An Alien Nightmareby Michael DoyleBehind the laboratory door,There is something more.Behind the experimentation,There awaits annihilation.Between space and the Earth’s junction,We stand the chance of malfunction.The Cryo-bed offered shallow sleepAs we wake into the deep.It always comes down to perspectiveWith very … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Alien Justice, Annhhiilationn, Cyro, Doomed Moon, Earth, Experimentatiion, Laborratory, Nightmare, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Sleep, Space, The Deep
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Thought For the Day: Every Tomorrow Has Two Handles. We Can Take Hold of It With the Handle of Anxiety Or the Handle of Faith
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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First Principles: Unswerving Loyalty To Duty, Constant Devotion To Truth, and A Clear Conscience Will Overcome Every Discouragement
“Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.” – Grover Cleveland
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Of Saintly Sinners
Of Saintly Sinnersby Michael DoyleBring on the sinner dressed like a saint,Gloss over the troubles in coated war paint.The modern world knows many a savage moment,And all of us face relentless torment.The Left and the Right exist as a surgeThat … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Good Parents Give Their Children Roots and Wings. Roots To Know Where Home Is, Wings To Fly Away and Exercise What’s Been Taught Them
“Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them.” – Jonas Salk One day, we will say something like this about AI. That’s what worries … Continue reading
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