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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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Thought For the Day: Perfumes Are the Feelings of Flowers
“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”– Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
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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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Poinsettia Day 2023
Poinsettia Day 2023by Michael DoyleUsually quiet and sometimes reservedSometimes death seems so undeservedIt’s hard to find the words to sayLike on this present Poinsettia DayLife is sad, yet interesting, in processionMoments like these reveal this is not a possessionBut a … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: He Who Allows Oppression, Shares the Crime
“He who allows oppression, shares the crime.” -Erasmus Darwin, physician, scientist, reformer, and poet; grandfather of Charles Darwin (12 Dec 1731-1802)
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First Principles: There Must Be A Positive Passion For the Public Good…Established In the Minds of the People, Or There Can Be No Republican Government
“There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty.” – John Adams (1776)
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Life As We Wear It
Life As We Wear Itby Michael DoyleIt is one thing to feign ignoranceAnd another to protest our innocenceThis is especially true when it can be shownThat the facts in dispute are easily knownIf we’d only question what it is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Answer, Can Do, Fundamental, Ignorance, Innocence, Jigsaw, Known, Life, Need, Poetry and Poems, Powers In Check, Question, Recognized Authority, Should, Should Do, Sky, Sufficient, True, Understood, Wear
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First Principles: The Legislative Department Is Everywhere Extending the Sphere of Its Activity and Drawing All Power Into Its Impetuous Vortex
“The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” – James Madison (1788)
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Thought For the Day: When You’ve Robbed A Man of Everything, He’s No Longer In Your Power – He’s Free Again
“You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate … Continue reading
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