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Thought For the Day: Don’t You See That the Whole Aim of Newspeak Is To Narrow the Range of Thought?
“Don’t You See That the Whole Aim of Newspeak Is To Narrow the Range of Thought?” – George Orwell
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Tagged Aim, Narrrow, Newspeak, See, Thought For the Day
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A Harper Rises
A Harper Risesby Michael DoyleWhen a harper rises from his slumberAnd whatever the spell that he’s been underHe will find his answers become rightAs though illuminated by the lightNo longer trading in colloquialisms and slightBut speaking only the true, noble, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Answer, Begun, Brdige, Brink, Clever, Conceive, Crumble, Dare, Done, Endeavor, Faith, Fog, Forget, Good fight, Harper, Humble, Illuminate, Journey, Life, Light, Love, Nobility, Noble, Poetry and Poems, Puzzles, Right, Rise, Saving Grace, Sensibility, Setting Sun, Slumber, Speak, Spell, Stride, Strong, Stumble, Think, Tight, Trade, Tragic Pride, True, Under, Victory, Way, Weak, Winds of Time
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First Principles: That Form of Government Which Is Best Contrived To Secure An Impartial and Exact Execution of the Laws, Is the Best of Republics
“That form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the laws, is the best of republics.” – John Adams (1776)
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Tagged Best, Contrivee, Execution, First Principles, Form, Government, Impartial, John Adams, Law, Republlic, Secure
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Thought For the Day: When You’re Traveling, You Are What You Are Right There and Then. People Don’t Have Your Past To Hold Against you. No Yesterdays On the Road
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
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Tagged Against, Past, People, Right There, Road, Then, Thought For the Day, Travel, William Least Heat-Moon, Yesterdays
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Our Father’s Embrace
Our Father’s Embraceby Michael DoyleYour faith has walked in my daysYour good has exceeded my praiseWith the mention of your nameYour wonders have brought me up from shameThere were days that I thought I would not liveBut you raised me … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazed, Believe, Child, Conceive, Days, Detection, Embrace, Evidence, Faith, Father, Forgiven, Good, Holy Grace, Hope, Human Being, Live, Mention, Miracles, Numbered Days, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Proof, Resurrection, Seen, Shame, Testimony, View, Walk, Wonderful, Wonders, Worth
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First Principles: While the People Are Virtuous They Cannot Be Subdued; But When Once They Lose Their Virtue Then Will Be Ready To Surrender Their Liberties
“While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” – Samuel Adams (1779)
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Tagged First Principles, Liberties, Lose, Ready, Samuel Adams, Subdued, Surrender, The People, Virtue, Virtuous
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Thought For the Day: Learn To Get In Touch With the Silence Within Yourself and Know That Everything In This Life Has A Purpose
“Learn To Get In Touch With the Silence Within Yourself and Know That Everything In This Life Has A Purpose.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Tagged All Events, Blessings, Coincidences, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Everythhing, Given, Know, Learn, Life, No Mistakes, Purpose, Silence, Thought For the Day, Touch, Yourself
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Walking With Inner Peace
Walking With Inner Peaceby Michael DoylePeace is more than an idea or feelingIt is a gift of God constantly revealingGiven to all who walk in His waysIt fills our hearts throughout our daysGod provides this peace adequatelyFor all to live … Continue reading
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Tagged Adequtely, Christ, Days, Destination, Feeling, Forgiven, Free, Full Measure, Gift of God, God, Hearts, His Ways, Inner Peace, Joy, Poetry and Poems, Salvation, Sovereignty, Surrender, Treasure, Trust, Walk, Walking
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Thought For the Day: What We Are Seeking Is An Experience of Being Alive, So That Our Life Experience On the Purely Physical Plane Will Have Resonance With Our Innermost Being and Reality
“I Think That What We Are Seeking Is An Experience of Being Alive, So That Our Life Experiences On the Purely Physical Plane Will Have Resonances With Our Own Innermost Being and Reality, So that We Actually Feel the Rapture … Continue reading
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Tagged Being Alive, Experience, Feel, Innermost Being, Joseph Campbell, Life Experiences, Physical Plane, Pure, Rapture, Reality, Resonance, Seek, Think, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Peace I Leave With You; My Peace I Give You. I Do Not Give To You As the World Gives. Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled and Do Not Be Afraid
“ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” – John 14:27 (NIV)
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Tagged Afraid, First Principles, Give, Hearts, John 14:27 (NIV), Leave, Peace, Trouble, You
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