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Thought For the Day: Everyone Discusses My Art and Pretends To Understand, As If It Were Necessary To Understand, When It Is Simply Necessary To Love
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” -Claude Monet, painter (1840-1926)
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)
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None of This Matters
None of This Mattersby Michael DoyleNone of this mattersBecause none of this is realCloaked in our tattersIt’s just another day in HellGod’s given insightInto the battles we must fightScattered in the ashes of the nightWe somehow hold onto the lightThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Battle, Blood, Blood Bruises, Cloaked, Cruel, Demand, Disregard, Fight, God, Good, Hell, Insight, Life, Light, Matters, Mercy, Mud, Night, None, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reasonable, Six Degrees, Soul, Tapestry, Tatters, Travesty, Understanding, Unguarded, Water, Words, Yesterday
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First Principles: The True Key For the Construction of Everything Doubtful In A Law Is the Intention of the Law-Makers
“The true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the … Continue reading
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Tagged Construction, Contradict, Doubtful, Express Words, Extraneous Circumstances, First Principles, Gather, Intention, Law, Law-Makers, Sought, Thomas Jefferson, True Key, Words
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Thought For the Day: Some of the Biggest Cases of Mistaken Identity Are Among Intellectuals Who Have Trouble Remembering That They Are Not God
“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.” – Thomas Sowell
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Rough Edges
Rough Edgesby Michael DoyleSometimes it seemsI’ve lost all my dreamsAt the rough edgesAnd window ledgesAre all I’m hanging ontoIt’s been so long since I’ve held youStuck working the night shiftIn a world full of griftThe system works its cutAgainst the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brand, Brutality, Confess, Cut, Dreams, Grift, Hanging, Held, Infirmary, Interesting Company, Jacked Into, Lost, Night Shift, Poetry and Poems, Propriety, Rest, Rhetorical Mess, Rough Edges, Seems, Subtlety, Survivors, System, Test, Understand, Walk On Players, Window Ledges, World
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Thought For the Day: Your Voice Dries Up If You Don’t Use It
“Your voice dries up if you don’t use it.” – Patti Page, singer (8 Nov 1927-2013)
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First Principles: It Is On Great Occasions Only, and After Time Has Been Given For Cool and Deliberate Reflection, That the Real Voice of the People Can Be Known
“It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.” – George Washington (1796)
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Imagine My Surprise
Imagine My Surpriseby Michael DoyleImagine my surpriseAt learning time is linearThe doctors opened my eyesWith a ditty about no longer being superiorSitting there tugging at my capeHinting I’m no longer a masked crusaderBut the prisoner of a lined gapeMother Nature … 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)
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