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Thought For the Day: Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand. It Never Did and Never Will.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: I Shall Live Badly If I Do Not Write, and I Shall Write Badly If I Do Not Live
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” – Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004)
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First Principles: An Honest Man Can Feel No Pleasure In the Exercise of Power Over His Fellow Citizens
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1813)
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Tagged Exercise, Feel, Fellow Citizens, First Principles, Honest Man, Pleasure, Power, Thomas Jefferson
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We Were So Certain
We Were So Certainby Michael DoyleIt’s not so funny How things rearrangeIt used to be so sunnyNow everything has changedYou were my Bonnie,And I was your ClydeWas I only dreamingOr along for your rideWe were so certainNow we’re simply hurtingI … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Bed, Bonnie, Certain, Change, Clear, Clyde, Days, Detaails, Devil Inside, Dreaming, Empty, Eyes, Feeling, Funny, Gone, Hurting, Last In Line, Light, Love, Make It Right, Mean, Missing, Morning, Pain Inside, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Reeling, Reveals, Ride, Silence, Sunny, Sunrise, Valentine, Words, Yesterday
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Just Beyond Possible
Just Beyond Possibleby Michael DoyleHowever much it seems to be implausibleThe risk is taken to push beyond probableThough sometimes this makes you culpableAt times, you must push just beyond possibleIt is for the good of every profitable companyThat we risk … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Action, All Paths, Articulation, Begun, Beyond, Bold, Canonical, Certainty, Company, Conceivable Theology, Culpable, Done, Earth, Elder Statesmen, Failure, First Turn, Godly Reality, Good, Hazard, Hesitation, Imagination, Implausible, Innate Good, Knowledge, Magic, Mysteriouis, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Pray, Probable, Profitable, Prophecy, Push, Question, Risk, Science, Sometimes, Supernatural, Systems, Technology, Tragic, Understood, Unknowable
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Thought For the Day: The Only Way of Discovering the Limits of the Possible Is To Venture A Little Way Past Them Into the Impossible
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke At different times and places, Arthur C. Clarke restated this quote in slightly different variants … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur C. Clarke, Discover, Impossible, Limits, Little Way, Only Way, Past, Possible, Thought For the Day, Venture
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First Principles: Human Kindness Has Never Weakened the Stamina Or Softened the Fiber of A Free People. A Nation Does Not Have To Be Cruel To Be Tough
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (30 Jan 1882-1945)
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Tagged Cruel, Fiber, First Principles, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Free People, Human Kindness, Nation, Soft, Stamina, Tough, Weak
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Uncomfortable Truths Sown
Uncomfortable Truths Sownby Michael DoyleUncomfortable truths push forward mortal historyAt times, these must be sown despite the miseryand the writers of the day must dare to openly criticizeAnd question the prevailing order that we must analyzeHowever, winding or twisting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brutality, Cancer's Ideology, Century, Climate, Comfortable Delusions, Courage, Criticize, Crooked, Cruel Truth, Damnation, Discern, Fight, Floating Scum, Fumble, Govenment, Government, Groan, Growth, Hate and Intimidation, Heavens and Hells, Illusion, Impermanence and Death, Last Breath, Learn, Life, Misery, Modesty, Morality, Mortal History, Noisy Few, Paths and Trails, Patriotic, Permanent, Personal Growth, Poetry and Poems, Question, Risen, Simpliciaty, Society, Sown, Stew, Stop, System, Top, Truth, Ugly, Uncomfortable, Writers
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First Principles: Whatever Is My Right As A Man Is Also the Right of Another; and It Becomes My Duty To Guarantee As Well As To Possess
“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.” – Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
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Tagged Become, Duty, First Principles, Guarantee, Man, Possess, Right, Right of Another, The Rights of Man
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Thought For the Day: A Patriot Must Always Be Ready To Defend His Country Against His Government
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” – Edward Abbey
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