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Inside A Glass Onion
Inside A Glass Onionby Michael DoyleIt’s a dangerous thingTo speak without thinkingIt’s what the red pill bringsThat leaves us drunker than drinkingBringing the system down and brokenBy being violently visible and outspokenWilling to stab a friend in the faceFor the … Continue reading
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Tagged Broken, Charade, Corruption, Danger, Disruption, Drink, Fifteen Minutes, Glass Onion, Golf Clap, Masquerade, Outspoken, Poetry and Poems, Red Pill, Stab, System, Think
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First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important of Republican Virtues, and Public Debt As the Greatest of the Dangers To Be Feared
“I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged Danger, Economy, Fear, First, First Principles, Most Important, Public Debt, Republican Virtues, Thomas Jefferson
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On Being A Prodigal
On Being A Prodigalby Michael DoyleTrue stories bring such fascinationThe church I live is a celebrationSo encouraging to live with right intentionBeing given in its right attentionThe best sermons are those seenLive out well by Christians beingBeing that best that … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Celebrration, Clarity, Compassion, Deep Love, Forgive, Home, Homily, Imagine, Lessons, Love, Pharisee, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Right Intention, Sadducees, Self-Discovery, Sermon, Theology
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Thought For the Day: May Your Trails Be Crooked, Winding, Lonesome, Dangerous, Leading To the Most Amazing View
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” -Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (29 Jan 1927-1989)
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Tagged Amazing View, Clouds, Crooked, Dangerous, Edward Abbey, Lonesome, Mountains, Rise, Thought For the Day, Trails, Winding
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First Principles: The Most Sacred of the Duties of A Government Is To Do Equal and Impartial Justice To All Citizens
“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.” —Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged All Citizens, Duties, Equal, First Prinicples, Government, Impartial, Justice, Sacred, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Music Hath Charms To Sooth A Savage Breast, To Soften Rocks, Or Bend A Knotted Oak
“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” -William Congreve, dramatist (24 Jan 1670-1729)
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Tagged Bend, Charms, Music, Oak, Rocks, Savage Breast, Soften, Thought For the Day, William Congreve
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First Principles: Wisdom, and Good Examples Are Necessary At This Time To Rescue the Political Machine From the Impending Storm
“Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.” – George Washington, Letter to James Madison (November 5, 1786)
Thought For the Day: That Community Is Already In the Process of Dissolution…Where Faith In the Eventual Supremacy of Reason Has Become So Timid That We Dare Not Enter Our Convictions
“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without … Continue reading
First Principles: As Riches Increase and Accumulate In Few Hands…the Tendency of Things Will Be To Depart From the Republican Standard
“As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Appendage, Depart, Few Hands, First Principles, Luxury, Republican Standard, Riches, Society, Tendency, Virtue, Wealth
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