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Thought For the Day: The Place To Improve the World Is First In One’s Own Heart and Head and Hands, and Then Work Outward From There
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” – Robert Maynard Pirsig
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Tagged First, Hands, Head, Heart, Improve, Place, Robert Maynard Pirsig, Thought For the Day, Work Outward, World
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First Principles: There Is No Maxim…Which Is More Liable To Be Misapplied,…Than…That the Interest of the Majority Is the Political Standard of Right and Wrong
“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.” – James Madison … Continue reading
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Tagged Current, Elucidation, First Princicples, Interest, James Madison, Liable, Majority, Maxim, Misapplied, Opinion, Political Standard, Right and Wrong
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A Pirate Sings In Heaven Tonight
A Pirate Sings In Heaven Tonightby Michael DoyleWasted away again in MargaritavilleYour three-chord songs really fit the billYou got the beach life just rightHitting all the beauties and highlightsAnd there’s a pirate singing in Heaven tonightA pirate saw forty, thirty-five … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach Life, Beauties, Belong, Cheeseburger, Coast, Fading Light, Five O'Clock Somewhere, Flip-Flop, Forty, Gloss, Granted, Heart, Heaven, High Tides, Highlights, Jimmy Buffett, Mai Tais, Margaraville, Memories, Paradise, Parrot, Pirate, Poetry and Poems, Pop-Top, Sing, Son of A Sailor, Songs, Thirty-Five Years, Three-Chord Songs, Toast, Tonight, Wasted Away, Wors
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Thought For the Day: The Mind, Once Stretched By A New Idea Never Returns To It’s Original Dimensions
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Mind, New Idea, Original Dimensions, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Return, Stretch, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Power of the Society But the People Themselves
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading
First Principles: Labor To Keep Alive In Your Breast That Little Spark of Celestial Fire Called Conscience
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)
Truth Becomes A Life
Truth Becomes A Lifeby Michael DoyleLooking at life in its full-lengthWe find our hold on truth is our strengthWithout truth, life is merely a stumbleWith all around us in a constant crumbleThis is happening throughout our landAs I pray to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Copeland, Abiding Truth, Anchor, Become, Being, Bind, Blessed, Blindness, Character, Choose, Corespond, Correction, Crumble, Desire, Each Other, Embrace, Ends, Feelings, Full Length, Futility, Gift, God's Sight, God's Word, Impurity, Interact, Keep Right, Kindness, Know, Legacy, Life, Love, Meaning, North Star, One Another, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Promise, Protection, Reliability, Righteousness, Salvation, Sanctify, Satan, See, Sinful Condition, Strength, Stumble, Truth, Understand, Wrong, Youth
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Thought For the Day: Defining Myself Is Like Confining Myself. So I Undefined Myself To Find Myself
“Defining myself is like confining myself. So I undefined myself to find myself.” – In-Q
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Tagged Confine, Define, Find, In-Q, Self, Thought For the Day, Undefine
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First Principles: Discretion Will Protect You, and Understanding Will Guard You. Wisdom Will Save you From the Ways of Wicked Men
“11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. from men whose words are perverse” 12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men” – Proverbs 2:11-12
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Tagged Discretion, First Principles, Guard, Perverse, Protect, Proverbs 2:11-12, Save, Understanding, Ways, Wicked Men, Wisdom
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