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First Principles: If We Must Disagree, Let’s Disagree Without Being Disagreeable
“If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Thought For the Day: Success Is Not Measured By What A Man Accomplishes, But By the Opposition He Has Encountered and the Courage With Which He Has Maintained the Struggle Against Overwhelming Odds
“Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Charles Lindbergh
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First Principles: We Have Staked the Future of All Our Political Constitutions Upon the Capacity of Each of Ourselves To Govern Ourselves According To the Moral Principles of the Ten Commandments
“We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according … Continue reading
First Principles: By Doing Good With His Money, A Man, As It Were, Stamps the Image of God Upon It, and Makes It Pass Current For the Merchandise of Heaven
“By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.” – John Rutledge
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Convergence
Convergenceby Michael Doyle True to each other down to the soul,We wanted each other to meet our goals.The sculpture of each became beautiful.We encouraged each other into being wonderful. You know, go ahead and shape meAs you go ahead to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Chiip Away, Convergence, Couples, Difference, Divergence, Goal, Love, Make, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Reflection, Relationship, Reverence, Sculpture, Shape, Soul, Wonderful
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Thought For the Day: Let the Consequences Be What They Would: I From This Time Determined That I Would Never Rest Until I Had Effected Its Abolition
“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade’s wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolition, Consequences, Deterimination, Effect, Enormous, Mind, Rest, Slave Trade, Thought For the Day, Time, William Wilberforce
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First Principles: Religion Is the Only Solid Base of Morals and That Morals Are the Only Possible Support of Free Governments
“Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.” – Gouverneur Morris
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Isaiah (What He Said)
Isaiah(What He Said)by Michael DoyleNot so much for what he did, but what he said.He’s quoted to this day for what’s in our heads.Seven hundred years before Christ’s holy birth,He foretold what now brings us our mirth.At least to us … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Catalyst, Christ, Christianity, Consequence, Dead Sea Scrolls, Earnestness, Eternity, Faith, Faithfulness, Fifth Gospel, God, History, Holy Birth, Isaiah, Jesus, Phrophesy, Poetry and Poems, Resp;onse
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Thought For the Day: What! Get To Heaven On Your Own Strength? Why, You Might As Well Try To Climb To the Moon On A Rope of Sand
“What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!” – George Whitefield
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