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Big Sur
Big Surby Michael DoyleThinking back under Indiana’s rainMemories of a life spent in refrainWhere too much was never quite enoughAnd jokers begged a thief to call his bluffI remember back to when weeks were doneWe’d pack the car to drive … Continue reading
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Tagged Away, Beach, Believe, Big Sur, Bixby Bridge, Bluff, California, Chapparal, Closed, Conceive, Condor, Current, Days, Driving, Earth, Enought, Footpaths, Freedom, Glide, Greenery, Happy Songs, Heaven, Highway One, Home, Indiana Rain, Jade Cove, Joy, Leave, Ledge, Life Spent, Life's Answers, McWay Falls, Mirth, Nature's Child, Oak, Poetry and Poems, Push and Pull, Reach, Redwood, Refrain, Scenery, Secrets, Smile, Soar, Soft Rain, Sunshine, Tear, Tide, Times, Topple, Trails, Unveiled, Ventana, Week, Wild, World's Edge
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Thought For the Day: The Eye of the Understanding Is Like the Eye of the Sense….You May See Great Axioms of Nature Through Small and Contemptible Instances
“The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.” -Francis Bacon, essayist, … Continue reading
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Tagged Crannies, Eye, Francis Bacon, Great Axioms, Instances, Nature, Objects, See, Sense, Small, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader; To Pursue Them Requires Not the Aid of Many Counselors
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Counselors, First Principles, Great Principles, Legible, Pursue, Reader, Right and Wrong, Thomas Jefferson
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The Spaces Between
The Spaces Betweenby Michael DoyleIn all the paradigms that are shiftedThe moral compasses that have driftedThe zeros, the ones, and those in-betweenAfford the perfected moments as human beingsWould it only be that all things of clarityWere as equal and equitable … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Between, Biology, Clairty, Dignity, Distortions, Drfit, Eggs and Chickens, Emprical, Endurance, Equal, Equitable, Face, Flashpoints of Ideology, Full Opportunity, Gap, Gender Biology, God, Homones, Human Beings, In-between, Inherent Advantages, Integrity, Limits of Biology, Male and Female, Moral Compasses, Occurrence, Paradigm, Performance Ceilings, Poetry and Poems, Political Identity, Political Will, Potential, Power, Puberty, Questions, Resources, Scientific Credential, Self-Righteous Feelings, Shift, Sincerity, Skill, Space, Spaces, Speed, Strategy, Tale, Test, Testosterone, Trajectory, Wholistic, Wome, Wrong-Minded Ideology, Youth, Zenith
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Thought For the Day: As A General Truth, Communities Prosper and Flourish…In Just the Degree That They Practice…the Primary Duties of Justice and Humanity
“As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity.” – William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, Governor, and Senator … Continue reading
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Tagged Communities, Degree, Flourish, General Truth, Humanity, Justice, Pracice, Primary Duties, Prosper, Thought For the Day, William Henry Seward
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First Principles: National Defense Is One of the Cardinal Duties of A Statesman
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815)
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Tagged Cardinal, Defense, Duty, First Principles, John Adams, National, Statesman
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Lies, Shapes, and Cheating AI
Lies, Shapes, and Cheating AIby Michael DoyleWhat an academic year it must truly have beenIt is good to not be professor or have to defendChecking integrity with AI for the use of AITurning the shape of cheating AI is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Year, Account, Ai-Generated Systems, Algorithms, Blame, Blunder, Certainty, Chasing Dollars, Chatbots, Cheated, Cheating AI, Churn, Clever, College, College Is For Learning, Correction, Cracks, Defeeated, Defend, Degrees, Difference, Doubt, Earning, Ed-Tech, False Delivery, Game, Grades, Guessing, Human Endeavor, Impossible, Indistinguishable, Integrity, Learn, Learning, Lies, Loss of Revenue, Opt Out, Paper Chase, Poetry and Poems, Positive Identifications, Professionalized, Professor, Proficiency, Rationalized, Reach, Scam, Schools, Shapes, Society, Spellcheck, Stomachs, Struggle, Teach, Teaching, Tectonic Shifts, Turnitin, Twisted
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First Principles: All the Children Are Trained Up To This Kind of Knowledge: They Are Accustomed From Their Earliest Years To Read the Holy Scriptures
“Among the customs which are universal among the people, in all parts of the state, one that seems worthy of remark, is, the attention that is paid to the education of children. The aim of the parent, is not so … Continue reading
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Tagged 1794, Aim, Arithmetic, Attention, Children, Common and Universal, Customs, Education, First Principles, Harvard College, Holy Scriptures, Knowledge, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Newspapers, Occupations of Life, Parent, Periodical Publications, Political Pamphlets, Proceedings, Red, Samuel Adams, The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, The People, Write
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Thought For the Day: Most Creativity Is A Transition From One Context Into Another Where Things Are More Surprising
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the ‘Aha’. Art also has this element. Our … Continue reading
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Tagged Aha, Alan Key, Art, Context, Creativity, Element, Laughter, Reality, Science, Surprising, Thought For the Day, Transition
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